Fotojornalismo e a ficcionalidade no cotidiano / The fictionalizing of the quotidian on photojournalism

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2006

RESUMO

The purpose of the present study is to draw into a rare category of photojournalism - the literary image -which is able to offer the printed media evidences of new contemporary facts. The literary image unfolds itself beyond the traditional informative value of photojournalism. It blends the archaic journalistic categories - information, opinion, interpretation - and produces narratives which might submit one s perception to more complex structural aspects of its referent. Therefore, it invokes photography codes not displayed in informative media. These emergent images validation is connected to attribution of signification to the factual world symbols which not only appear in the image as peircean designs but, above all, as image genesis which flows to dense imaginary fields where the most fundamental human experience senses reside. The first part of the study establishes defining photojournalism production structure in Brazil: editors, photographers, and a written press ombudsman are confronted and have their premises directed to validate the factuality representation crisis theory. The argument is that we still accept an outdated paradigm of attachment to realism - the same with which the newspapers institutionalise promises of unveiling the world in each and every edition - resulting in pessimistic remarks concerning photojournalists academic background. It is highlighted here the need of discussing a meta-ethics in which the photographer thinks him or herself as a historical subject of their own era and elaborates daily life hermeneutics. The second part of the study exhibits and analyses 27 Literary photojournalism images collected from foreign and Brazilian newspapers, especially Folha de S. Paulo

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photojournalism fotografia photography media studies fotojornalismo comunicação midia

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