Historical Depiction in Contemporary Photojournalism
Benjamim PicadoMedia and Cultural
StudiesFluminense Federal University, Brazil
PICADO, Benjamim. O Ollho Suspenso do Novecento: plasticidade e discursividade visual no fotojornalismo moderno. Rio de Janeiro: Azougue. 2014.
Philoxenus of Eretria – « The Battle of Issus »
(90-67, BC) – Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli
“…in conveying this experience of the eyewitness, the image serves a double purpose – it shows what happened out there, but also, by implication, what happened or would have happened to us, both physically and emotionally. We understand, without much reflection, where we are supposed to stand in relation to the event depicted and what moment we are made to share vicariously with the eyewitness. There is no difference in principle between the image and the one shot in a million of which the photographic war reporter may dream” E.H.Gombrich. « Standards of
Truth: the arrested image and the moving eye ». In: The Image and the Eye (1982)
Philoxenus of Eretria – « The Battle of Issus »
(90-67, BC) – detail (Darius)
Philoxenus of Eretria – « The Battle of Issus »
(90-67, BC) – detail (Alexander)
Don McCullin – « Bogside, Londonderry » (1971)
Ian Bradshaw – « The Twickenham Streaker » (1974)
Douglas Martin – « Dorothy Counts » (1957)
Nick Ut – « Napalm Girl » (1972)
Orlando Lagos – « Last Day of Salvador Allende » (1973)