Left wing iconographies: encounters between visual culture and political culture in Spanish Civil War photographs

Abstract

This paper focuses on some of David Seymour “Chim”’s photographs from the Spanish Civil War, to discuss the formation of a very political iconology. Driven by left and anti-fascist agendas, Chim reached for a specific imagetic vocabulary, which was being formed in that period and was going to cause an impact in contemporary visual culture, especially in documental photography.

Keywords

• Photojournalism
• war photography
• Spanish Civil War