Do instante ao estado de coisas: formas da estabilidade no discurso visual do fotojornalismo

Abstract

This article intends to examine the question of the narrative functions attributed to the motives of stability in photojournalism, departing  from the relationships between visual themes of landscapes and the concept of sublimity in pictotial representation, from Louis Marin’s analysis of depiction of nature in the paintings of Nicolas Poussin. From the standpoint of photojournalism, we take the example of war photographer James Nechtwey’s visual essay on the aftermath of the attack on the Twin Towers in New York, published in Time magazine, as a field for the analysis of the same problem of stability and visual discourse in photography.