Ocio y Fotografía: narrativas cotidianas del BarrioImágenes de La Ceibita re-significando en clave del ocio un archivo sobre la memoria urbana del barrio de Caracas 1972-1986

Abstract

The research deals with the representations of leisure in everyday life in the neighbourhood based on the study of a photographic archive of the author. Therefore, from the archive Imágenes de La Ceibita period 1976-1986 by Carlos Germán Rojas, the gaze of the initial record is re-signified in terms of leisure, allowing us to define a genealogy of the explicit and implicit practices of leisure in the world of popular life in the context of the city of Caracas, Venezuela. In this way, structured in five (5) axes of analysis (the neighbourhood, the world of life, the popular world, shared memory and photography), the author's own interpretation is deconstructed in a series of reflective encounters on the image and also on the memory transferred to this archive, that is to say, the value of the model of analysis achieved results from the integration of the author himself (in life) on his own photographic record, allowing an in-depth study of everyday life in Caracas in the neighbourhood during the period 1976-1986. Thus the opportunity to delve into the family, relationships of trust, friendship, solidarity, the reordering of spaces, the self-perception of the inhabitants of a typical Caracas neighbourhood, are the motive (objective) for re-constructing recorded moments. And within this same ordering, like someone who records his own family, without becoming a family album, this photographic archive oscillates between the domestic and the documentary. The versatility of the research explores the possibilities that photography (approached from the photographic archives) and the line of leisure meet to generate a testimony about the city, the neighbourhood, and also about the practices of leisure in everyday life.