This paper focuses on two of the three photographic projects included in An-My Lê’s Small Wars (2005). The first one, Small Wars (1999–2002) represents Vietnam War reenactors staging combat in the Virginian forest. In the second project, 29 Palms (2003–2004), Lê turns her camera on United States Mar...

This article seeks to investigate the links established between journalistic discourse and photography in the aguafuertes o f the journey to Spain, published by Roberto Arlt as a correspondent for the newspaper El Mundo. We focus here on the pictures that appear with the chronicles to analyze two di...

the weekly VU (1928-1940) is known for its pioneering iconography and pioneer role in the history of photojournalism. The study presents it at the heart of an international network of artists and typographs linking it to the Union of Artistes Modernes, the Bauhaus and the New Typegraphy, and innovat...

"This is evidenced by numerous overwritten pages: until the last years of his life, Gisèle Freund has never interrupted the drafting of what has become her major test, including an important aspect of photojournalism. Reading the first state of this work, which is an essential contribution to unders...

Since June 2014, the critic A.D. Coleman has published on his Photocritic International blog and with other contributors a series of notes which transcribe a thorough survey of the famous photographs taken by Robert Capa in Omaha Beach, when disembarked on 6 June 1944. She questioned the story surro...

The Uganda Press Photo Award is a photography competition and initiative for Ugandan photographers and photojournalists, which brings their work and profession to the public’s attention and also creates training and networking opportunities. Its second edition had its final event – the prize giving...

This article analyses some of the complex relationships between photography, politics and historical studies with the historical meaning of a press photograph published in 1981 as its main focus. In this regard, its role in the construction of a journalistic speech legitimising the military regime w...

During the second half of the 20th century the status of photography has changed: institutionalization of the medium, its use in conceptual art, the crisis of photojournalism, the invention of digital photography, together with the transition to more pragmatist aesthetics, have influenced the recogn...

at the end of the 1940s featured around the ‘TV newspaper’ a number of marrains inspiring and feeding it: the press, film news, spoken newspaper, photojournalism, conference, etc. powerful models of practices, training, professionals and techniques, which are not immediately transferable to televisi...

The purpose of this research is to identify the impressions and emotions generated by photography in humans when exposed to interpretative analysis. For this study, the FIRS Embrance by Mads Nissen 2020, winner of World Press Photo 2021, was analysed. Research is experimental, inductive-qualitative...

Newspapers present information to the public on various topics, such as politics, economics, culture, and sports. Through its preaching, newspapers report a number of valuable events as historical records. Photos, complementing the news, come with a visual approach. Based on the rules of journalism,...

Based on the assumption that the photograph participates in speeches mediation processes from which a certain image of you and a certain understanding of the other fit with the technical elements of the composition, the aim of this article is to study the reports on Brazil that were published in the...

<p>Selecting and editing images for news are critical components in photojournalism professionals’ daily work routines. The aim of this study is to collect empirical data on photojournalism professionals’ image-searching behavior on relevance judgments. A multimethod research design for data collect...

There are many archive services which today hold significant collections of press photos. These may come from a variety of different origins—often unidentified ones—and this makes it difficult to identify the material property of the elements which make up the collections. Photojournalism has always...

This work raises the role of image as an agent of social transformation. The methodology used is a case study on the impact of the photograph of Aylan Kurdi, the three year-old boy drowned in an attempt to flee a Syrian immigrant pond in Bodrum. It is one of the recent documents of social photojourn...

The paper tries to frame what could be a documentary artistic practice today in the field of photography, and to specify the nature of the ties that can link such a practice to approaches in social sciences. It discusses the case of the written report (William Vollmann), replacing it within the trad...

This article hypothesizes that an engineering of participation in link with landscape notion may promote awareness of the different actors for the definition and management of territorial projects, and support a sustainable implementation of landscape policies. Two learning situations in south-weste...

Over the last several years the need for transparency has grown in demand, generally and globally, in the hopes of a better future. However, such a promise can never entirely fulfilled for factual as well as ontological reasons. Based on the analysis of the painted picture, Sandra del Pilar (visual...

this interview takes place on the basis of a dialogue with SADO, a photographic group of the City of Plata. The practice and production of this group of Argentinian photographers shows the unprecedented ways in which contemporary photography is part of today’s complex reality. Through the creation o...

In Brazil, throughout the 20th century, photographs published on magazine and newspaper pages shaped a visual public space in which facts and photos combined in the narrative of events. The city of Rio de Janeiro, the Brazilian capital until 1960, was the prime place for the institutionalisation of...

The role of photogram reporter in front of the new configuration of printed journalistic products is gaining a new dimension, in which the most important hand is the fact but its representation, its plasticity, often at the expense of information. The new technologies have led to a real revolution i...

During the official period of the Mexican Revolution, 1910 – 1919, the armed movement headed by Emiliano Zapata was a permanent subject for photographers working for the Press in Mexico City. Except for the short period of the Conventionist Government in the Capital City (1915), photography was repe...

Internet, las redes sociales y la evolución tecnológica han provocado un cambio en el paradigma informativo, afectando en una mayor proporción al fotoperiodismo de prensa. El aumento en la resolución de las cámaras de los móviles, ha permitido que un aficionado pueda hacer una foto publicable, q...

The article examines the photographic archives of the 1990s conflict in Algeria. Based on an ethnography carried out in the present, it traces the trajectory of photographs produced by press photographers in the 1990s, and questions the place they occupy today, both as material objects and images. Q...