Memory of the past, remembrance of the present. Photographic materialization of the Ukraine-Russian war in the work of Anatolii Stepanov
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This research focuses its interest on the textual analysis of the meaning mechanisms of a photograph taken by Anatolii Stepanov, a Ukrainian war photojournalist. The visual text object of study stands out for the fruitful and polyhedral semanticity that it encloses in its plastic forms, figurative expressions and structural contents. Due to this, it is a paradigmatic example of the author's work and, at the same time, of the conflict between the two nations that it portrays. The structuralist semiotic analysis has been the tool used to elucidate and understand what it says and, above all, how it says those thematic aspects that it raises. The results of the study indicate that the ideological axes of the war between Ukraine and Russia; the violence of nature, in general, and human violence, in particular; the brutality of an armed conflict; the love towards a snatched nation and the struggle of the weakest against the strongest are materialized themes in the plastic and figurative level.
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