La fotografía y la escritura documental del archivo institucional/Photography and the Documentary Writing of the Institutional archive

The article aims to explore the photography as a technology of archive -- in concrete, the genre of the photographic portrait-, and its documentary use in relation with the practices and the techniques of observation, of registration and archive at the end of the 18^sup th^ century and beginning of the 19^sup th^ techniques, that have placed a new "political anatomy of the body". Furthermore, it intents to point out the historical discourse of these intersections through the emergency of an immense documentary writing closely connected to the power-knowledge mechanisms through the analysis of the French philosopher, Michel Foucault in Surveiller et Punir: Naissance de la Prison (1975).