PHOTO-DESIGN FROM RIO DE JANEIRO LANDSCAPE

Authors

  • BARBARA PECCEI SZANIECKI

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.12957/polemica.2012.4323

Abstract

The article poses the relationship between the carioca landscape and its iconography in the age of digital photography. We have gone through images published in the newspaper O Globo that feature simulations of possible future landscapes of Rio with the use of new digital technologies. At first, we analyze the journalistic discourses: discourses that go from the proposal of removal to that of re-urbanization of favelas – as a unique agency of culture and nature in Rio de Janeiro – and its respective production of images. Next, we try to deepen the analysis of the interactions between contemporary media and digital photography: on one side, new social interactive media (development of blogs and contests) and, on the other side, new technological possibilities (of  image manipulation and simulation). Finally we create a relationship between a DNA of the landscape and the BITs of the digital photography which would be promoting a photo-design of carioca landscape, displacing the notion of authenticity and developing a new photographic culture.

Keywords: Digital photography; media; simulation; authenticity; photo-design.

Author Biography

BARBARA PECCEI SZANIECKI

Graduada em Comunicação Visual pela ENSAD de Paris (1994) e possui Mestrado (2005) e Doutorado (2010) em Design pela PUC-Rio. No momento desenvolve pesquisa de pós-doutorado intitulada “tecnologias digitais e autenticidade: o estatuto da imagem fotográfica na linguagem visual contemporânea” na Escola Superior de Desenho Industrial da UERJ. É autora do livro Estética da Multidão

Published

2012-12-03

How to Cite

SZANIECKI, B. P. (2012). PHOTO-DESIGN FROM RIO DE JANEIRO LANDSCAPE. POLÊM!CA, 11(4), 539 a 558. https://doi.org/10.12957/polemica.2012.4323

Issue

Section

HÍBRIDOS