Fotomontaje como agente revolucionario

Cláudia Raquel Lima

doi:10.24310/Fotocinema.2018.v0i17.5106

Authors

Cláudia Raquel Lima Universidad Lusófona do Porto, Portugal Portugal

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24310/Fotocinema.2018.v0i17.5106

Keywords:

Photomontage, Political photomontage, Propaganda, Heartfield, El Lissitzky, Klutsis

Abstract

In this article, the practice of photomontage is presented as a revolutionary agent capable of reconfiguring real events and creating new narratives based on political interests. To this end, two different approaches to the role of photomontage are presented, both carried out in a context where the political scenario was undergoing deep restructuring.

In the first case, described through an analysis of a set of works by John Heartfield, the photomontage is characterised by a discourse of opposition to a rising fascist political regime in Germany, revealing this practice as a potential medium to propose a rereading of real events and to appeal to the critical sense of the public. In this context we can say that photomontage acts as an (anti)political weapon.

In the second case, described through the analysis of a set of works by authors such as Klutsis or El Lissitzky, photomontage is characterised by a discourse in accordance with a new political era taking place in the Soviet Union in the sequence of the October Revolution.

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Author Biography

Cláudia Raquel Lima, Universidad Lusófona do Porto, Portugal

Cláudia Raquel Lima has a PhD in Digital Media (University of Porto 2015). She is a lecturer of Communication Design at Universidade Lusófona do Porto and researcher at ID+ - Research Institute for Design, Media and Culture.
Her general research interests include communication practices of public libraries on the web, having published a book – “Biblioteca em Rede: Comunicação Integrada no Contexto
das Culturas Participativas“, and several articles in this field. She has also been studying
photography as a social document and its political uses, having already published a set of
articles in this scope.

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