The Impact of New Technologies in Photographic Aesthetics.Typologies in the Work of Pedro Meyer

Abstract

Pedro Meyer is a pioneer and a paradigm of the transition from analog to digital photography. The purpose of this research is to deepen his work and work methods so as to establish and define the typologies of his career. To achieve this, a content analysis methodology will be followed in a qualitative version that will address a sample including: I photograph to remember (1991), Truths and Fictions: a Journey from Documentary Photography to Digital Photography (1995) and its CD ROM version, The Real and the True, and Heresies (2008). From the study of the exhibition an attempt will be made to reveal how the conversion of images from paper to digital formats is not an impediment to maintaining certain aesthetics inherent in his work.