Fotografia e experiÃncia estÃtica: a superaÃÃo do efÃmero no fotojornalismo contemporÃneo

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2008

RESUMO

The present dissertation reflects on the relationship between journalistic photography and aesthetic experience, beginning with an analysis of one of the images produced in the 2004 Beslan school massacre in Russia and distributed worldwide by the Reuters agency. Based on my own experience and the repercussions caused by the image in so many others, I point out that, in particular circumstances, journalistic photography produces a meaning that surpasses the more immediate limits of rational thought. Thus, elements in the photographic image that are able to stimulate the onlooker to having an aesthetic experience were investigated and described. Such an experience goes beyond the routine and is able to pull us out the numbness in which we so often find ourselves when facing the proliferation and mediaâs trivialization of the image in contemporary society. On this point, I address concepts such as tragedy and catharsis in studies on aesthetics, memory and imagination as well as reflections on human perplexity with regard to death. In the different images selected, I pursue the association of elements that intensify the production of a meaning that reverberates more intensely in our inner world

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memÃria aesthetic experience memory fotojornalismo catharsis imagination experiÃncia estÃtica comunicacao catarse imaginaÃÃo death morte photojournalism

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