The Philosophical Foundations of Photography as a Means of Communication

Guilherme Ghisoni da Silva is a PhD Associated Professor at the Faculty of Philosophy of the Federal University of Goiás and coordinator of the Photography Philosophy Research Laboratory. He is a CNPq Research Productivity Fellow - Level 2. He conducted postdoctoral research in philosophy of photography as a visiting faculty at the University of British Columbia (Canada, 2019-2020) and obtained his PhD in Philosophy from the Federal University of São Carlos (2011), with a study period at the Université Pierre-Mendès-France - Grenoble II, France (2010). He was the recipient of the ANPOF 2006-2007 Awards for Best Philosophy Dissertation in Brazil ("The Status of Philosophical Discourse in Wittgenstein's Tractatus" (2006)), from the National Association of Graduate Studies in Philosophy, and the Academic Highlight of the Year 2010 from the Federal University of Paraná. He also works as a visual artist, participating in national and international exhibitions. He has worked in various books in partnership with renowned photographers such as Guy Veloso, Betina Samaia, and Claudio Edinger (GHISONI, 2015, 218a, 217b, 2019). He is the editorial coordinator of the book by photographer Claudio Edinger, titled History of Authorial Photography and Modern Painting (2019), and co-editor of the anthology Confluindo Tradições Estéticas (2016). Additionally, he is the author of several academic articles and book chapters on philosophy of language, time, memory, and photography.