Index or catalogue: the imagethic sliding of photographs from Veja Magazine

Abstract

In this visual culture age, we are all affected by an indiscriminate production of images which also reaches the printed journalism. Based on a view of some decades ago, this work intends to remark how the photograph representation of Veja Magazine have searched for a more journalistic visuality in the 1960 years through 1990, assuming later a lack of definition of registers and an advertising configuration – which can bring poor and not transparent understanding, in a context of informative devaluation and image banalization. The photographic figure of the magazine does not explore the several possibilities seen by the concept of complex image.