Political Appearances of Extra Actors Subjects in Photojournalistic Images of Massacres in Two Favelas of Rio de Janeiro

Based on theoretical-critical arguments from the field of communication and aesthetic experience, this text analyzes a set of journalistic photographs about two police operations in Rio de Janeiro, one at Complexo da Maré in 2014 and the other at Jacarezinho in 2021. In all the images, we noted that...

Täydet tiedot

Tallennettuna:
Bibliografiset tiedot
Julkaisussa:URI:https://journals.openedition.org/cs,
Päätekijät: Marques, Ângela Cristina Salgueiro, Biondi, Angie Gomes, Rosa, Ana Paula da
Aineistotyyppi: Article ou chapitre numérique
Kieli:Anglais
Julkaistu: Comunicação e sociedade 2023
Aiheet:
Linkit:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
id openedition-oai:revues.org:cs_7984
record_format openedition
spelling openedition-oai:revues.org:cs_7984 en https://journals.openedition.org/cs/7984 2023-02-02T01:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/eyrg https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Political Appearances of Extra Actors Subjects in Photojournalistic Images of Massacres in Two Favelas of Rio de Janeiro Comunicação e sociedade Centro de estudos de comunicação e sociedade info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2183-3575 info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/1645-2089 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/cs Marques, Ângela Cristina Salgueiro Biondi, Angie Gomes Rosa, Ana Paula da photojournalism extra actors political appearance police operation Brazilian favelas Based on theoretical-critical arguments from the field of communication and aesthetic experience, this text analyzes a set of journalistic photographs about two police operations in Rio de Janeiro, one at Complexo da Maré in 2014 and the other at Jacarezinho in 2021. In all the images, we noted that the residents appear as extras in the field of action of security agents in operations generally mediatized. The analysis exercise observed that apparitions of the extra end up destabilizing the biopolitical frameworks of photojournalism, which try to prevent the perception and apprehension of subjects and ways of life disregarded by hierarchical and asymmetric recognition conditions. Thus, we reflect on how the visibility conditions of the journalistic context can be altered by the presence and apparitions of ordinary people in photographic images, coming from the presence of bodies and people in their daily chores, through gestures and glances, and unpredicted reactions which, once registered, interfere in the images’ enunciative regime. Finally, the text reveals how the political and aesthetic power of the appearances in the figurations can highlight the nuances between the visible and the readable, allowing the opening of a fracture in the devices activated to read a certain situation, corporealities, and gestures in the images. A partir de argumentos teórico-críticos advindos do campo da comunicação e da experiência estética, este texto privilegia a análise de um conjunto de fotografias jornalísticas sobre duas operações policiais realizadas no Rio de Janeiro: uma, no Complexo da Maré, em 2014, e a outra, no Jacarezinho, em 2021. Em todas as imagens notamos que os moradores aparecem como figurantes que atravessam o campo de ação dos agentes de segurança em operações, em geral, midiatizadas. O exercício de análise observa que as aparições dos figurantes acabam por desestabilizar os enquadramentos biopolíticos do fotojornalismo que tentam impedir a percepção e apreensão de sujeitos e formas de vida desconsideradas por condições de reconhecimento hierarquizantes e assimétricas. Assim, refletimos como as condições de visibilidade do contexto jornalístico podem ser alteradas pela presença e pelas aparições de pessoas comuns na imagem fotográfica, advindas pela própria presença dos corpos e das pessoas em seus afazeres cotidianos, pelos gestos e olhares, pelas reações não previstas e que, uma vez registradas, interferem no regime enunciativo das imagens. O texto revela, por fim, como a potência política e estética das aparições nas figurações pode ressaltar as nuances entre o visível e legível, permitindo a abertura de uma fratura nos dispositivos acionados para ler uma determinada situação, corporeidades e gestualidades nas imagens.
collection OpenEdition Journal
language Anglais
format Article ou chapitre numérique
building 0/Bibliothèque numérique/
1/Bibliothèque numérique/OpenEdition Journals/
topic photojournalism
extra actors
political appearance
police operation
Brazilian favelas
spellingShingle photojournalism
extra actors
political appearance
police operation
Brazilian favelas
Marques, Ângela Cristina Salgueiro
Biondi, Angie Gomes
Rosa, Ana Paula da
Political Appearances of Extra Actors Subjects in Photojournalistic Images of Massacres in Two Favelas of Rio de Janeiro
description Based on theoretical-critical arguments from the field of communication and aesthetic experience, this text analyzes a set of journalistic photographs about two police operations in Rio de Janeiro, one at Complexo da Maré in 2014 and the other at Jacarezinho in 2021. In all the images, we noted that the residents appear as extras in the field of action of security agents in operations generally mediatized. The analysis exercise observed that apparitions of the extra end up destabilizing the biopolitical frameworks of photojournalism, which try to prevent the perception and apprehension of subjects and ways of life disregarded by hierarchical and asymmetric recognition conditions. Thus, we reflect on how the visibility conditions of the journalistic context can be altered by the presence and apparitions of ordinary people in photographic images, coming from the presence of bodies and people in their daily chores, through gestures and glances, and unpredicted reactions which, once registered, interfere in the images’ enunciative regime. Finally, the text reveals how the political and aesthetic power of the appearances in the figurations can highlight the nuances between the visible and the readable, allowing the opening of a fracture in the devices activated to read a certain situation, corporealities, and gestures in the images.
author Marques, Ângela Cristina Salgueiro
Biondi, Angie Gomes
Rosa, Ana Paula da
author_facet Marques, Ângela Cristina Salgueiro
Biondi, Angie Gomes
Rosa, Ana Paula da
author_sort Marques, Ângela Cristina Salgueiro
title Political Appearances of Extra Actors Subjects in Photojournalistic Images of Massacres in Two Favelas of Rio de Janeiro
title_short Political Appearances of Extra Actors Subjects in Photojournalistic Images of Massacres in Two Favelas of Rio de Janeiro
title_full Political Appearances of Extra Actors Subjects in Photojournalistic Images of Massacres in Two Favelas of Rio de Janeiro
title_fullStr Political Appearances of Extra Actors Subjects in Photojournalistic Images of Massacres in Two Favelas of Rio de Janeiro
title_full_unstemmed Political Appearances of Extra Actors Subjects in Photojournalistic Images of Massacres in Two Favelas of Rio de Janeiro
title_sort political appearances of extra actors subjects in photojournalistic images of massacres in two favelas of rio de janeiro
publisher Comunicação e sociedade
publishDate 2023
container_title URI:https://journals.openedition.org/cs
url https://ezproxy.univ-orleans.fr/login?url=https://journals.openedition.org/cs/7984
_version_ 1877292906498228224