Imagens de um tempo suspenso:

dramaturgia do não-acontecimento nas fotografias contemplativas da pandemia

  • Greice Schneider
  • Renata Benia

Abstract

This article examines the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the dramatic representation matrices of photojournalism; in particular, on how the period of confinement and social isolation affects the visual configuration of events. To this end, we will mobilize the concepts of eventuality in narrative theory to examine three dimensions: the tension between invisibility and visibility; the tension between the episodic seriality of the pandemic and the sensation of suspension of time; and the spatial division between the disturbing emptiness of ghost cities and the exodus to a domestic daily life. Through the analysis of selected photos, we examine how these aspects affect the dramaturgy of the pandemic, marked by states of absorption and by the slowing down of the gaze.

Published
2020-06-23