PRODUCTION OF NEWS PHOTOGRAPHY: ANALYTICAL RESOURCES OF SOCIAL SCIENCES


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 The article focuses on the process of production of news photographs. News photographs, created by leading information agencies, occupy a significant place in the visual flow that surrounds modern man, however their production is practically not investigated. Proposed by the author revision of approaches, developed in the context of visual researches and sociology of journalism, promotes designation of fundamental principles of microanalysis of visual production. For their detalization the materials of fieldwork conducted in Moscow bureaus of international wire services (interviews and participant observation) carried out by the author are used.

 

 

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O. B. Zapolskaya

Higher School of Economics

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Email: morenovsv@ssau.ru
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