%0 Journal Article
%T Photographic agents. Jorge Molder: detective, magician, actor.
%A Claudio Rozzoni
%J -
%D 2018
%R http://dx.doi.org/10.13128/Aisthesis-23818
%X The £¿uvreof Portuguese photographer Jorge Molder (Lisbon, 1947) can be construed as a series of series. These series are filled with a wealth of absent presences, of possibilities that arise and fade without ever reaching actualization or confirmation, thereby contributing to create a ¡®detective-story¡¯ atmosphere. This also proves to be true as regards Molder¡¯s own body. Indeed, his face, his hands are recurrent ¡°subjects¡± running through his 40 years of work. Even so, when we ask who the man is that we see in Molder¡¯s series, the answer is problematic. On the one hand, we know it is ¡°him¡±, insofar as he himself is the model for his iconic ¡°constructions¡±. On the other hand, Molder¡¯s images are not ¡°self-portraits¡± aiming to reveal the essence of his self, but rather ¡°self-representations¡± creating a peculiar ¡°character¡± who is and yet is not him: a double
%U http://www.fupress.net/index.php/aisthesis/article/view/23818