O fotográfico na construção audiovisual Magnum in Motion

Abstract

The research reflects on digital photography in contemporary times, discussing the construction of the photographic on the web, particularly in the Magnum in Motion. Magnum Agency’s photography essays are addressed from the audiovisual perspective and its relations with the Web, that are mainly shown on the homepage and in multiple languages that converge in the essays, considering the photography as the center of a visual construction. We understand photographic (Dubois, 2011; Soulages, 2010) as the set of relations that inserts the photography in an audiovisual process. The methodology used for the empirical analysis is inspired by the scanning, according to Flusser (1985). This method allows us to "wander" through technical images and figure out some of the coded and written directions on these surfaces, which are concepts about the worlds technically produced by Magnum. The scanned essays, Obamania and Bongo Fever, call into question, in this survey, the nature of photographic audiovisual: the human closely seen, the accuracy in photographic composition and the multiplicity of languages, sequences, cuts, rhythm and sound montage are elements of the Magnum photographic worlds and put the photographer, the technical apparatus and the viewer as witness of the situation.