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| Resource type: Web Article Language: pt: português Peer reviewed DOI: 10.25200/SLJ.V12.N2.2023.572 BibTeX citation key: Schneider2023 Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details |
Categories: General Keywords: Journalism, Visual Culture Creators: Schneider Collection: Sur le journalisme, About journalism, Sobre jornalismo |
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The history of the documentary value of visuality in journalism is marked by continuous tensions. The emergence of a new image-producing technology, with its impact on belief systems, is usually accompanied by renewed interactions between the fields of art and journalism. Over the last few decades, this phenomenon has manifested itself in a particularly inventive way within graphic journalism (or illustrated journalism). This article explores the field of visual journalism through an interdisciplinary approach, drawing on the concept of graphiation (Marion), which originated in comics studies. We begin by looking at the intersection between journalism and visuality, and in particular at possible intersections between the fields of visual journalism and comics. Marion’s concept is then examined, focusing on the materiality of graphic representation, the instances of visual enunciation and their effects on the viewer-reader. Finally, we examine this conceptual matrix using specific examples of graphic journalism, published in major journalistic media and produced by four contemporary authors: Mona Chalabi, Susie Cagle, Julia Rothman and Wendy MacNaughton. Their work suggests to some extent a return to the illustrated journalism that prevailed before the age of photography, in a rising movement where the instance of graphic enunciation is less and less transparent and more and more obvious. This opens up new possibilities for approaching factuality through the stroke and gestures of drawing, with more personal narratives and narrative devices. The concept of graphiation explored here constitutes a methodological tool that enables us to approach the gesture of drawing as the construction of a graphic style capable of producing subjectivity and engagement in the sphere of reading.
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