Discursos Fotográficos (Apr 2013)

Photography and the counterpoise in the tragic news at popular newspapers cover pages

  • Paulo Bernardo Vaz,
  • Rodrigo Daniel Levoti Portari

DOI
https://doi.org/10.5433/1984-7939.2013v9n15p37
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 15
pp. 37 – 62

Abstract

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The article searches into the iterant representation of tragedy at popular journalism, which explores violence, death and tragic at their cover pages. It also rises the hypothesis that those newspapers use the tragic and non-tragic to promote a balance and attenuate the impact caused by tragedies.

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