Abstract
This article analyses the construction of pain, as dramatization of suffering, in contemporary
photojournalism culture. By studying three pictures, shot during different conflicts and awarded
prizes by the World Press Photo Association, this contribution examines how the repetition of
Western iconography ‘figural models’ – such as the mater dolorosa and the pietas – forms part of
a dramatization strategy involving the photographic act. The persistence of a religious memory in
photographed subjects’ poses and the implied photo-editorial choices reveals a non-neutral intentionality
that forces us to question both the relationship between image-making and news-making
and the dynamics of their propagation into a political strategy characterised by the necessity of
humanitarian interventionism
Titolo tradotto del contributo | [Autom. eng. transl.] Tear morphology: images of suffering in contemporary war photojournalism |
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Lingua originale | Italian |
pagine (da-a) | 107-114 |
Numero di pagine | 8 |
Rivista | Comunicazioni Sociali |
Volume | 2016 |
Stato di pubblicazione | Pubblicato - 2016 |
Pubblicato esternamente | Sì |
Keywords
- iconography
- photojournalism
- representation of pain