Photographic narratives of Covid-19 during Spain’s state of emergency: images of death, dying and grief
Autor/a
Morcate, Montserrat
Pardo, Rebeca
Fecha de publicación
2022ISSN
1357-6275
Resumen
Covid-19 is the first pandemic to be broadcast and photographed as it happens worldwide. However, despite the plethora of images on countless aspects of the pandemic, few media images have covered its more sensitive issues, such as the collapse of the healthcare system, the process of dying alone, or the disruption to funeral rites and mourning. Consequently, the visual narratives of the pandemic are biased. They lack images that show its more dramatic aspects. This affects not only how the public perceives and reacts to Covid-19, but also the visual evidence that will remain for historical memory in the future. With one of the world’s highest case rates and most stringent states of emergency, Spain offers an interesting case study to analyse the pandemic’s photographic narratives and its missing images during lockdown. This paper focuses on the presence or absence of images dealing with illness, death, dying and grief, as well as their ways of representation. It delves into the framing of particular visual narratives through an analysis of the images that appeared in Spain’s leading newspapers, together with semi-structured interviews conducted with renowned photojournalists who worked on the front line to document Covid-19 during lockdown.
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Artículo
Versión del documento
Versión publicada
Lengua
Inglés
Materias (CDU)
61 - Medicina
616.9 - Enfermedades infecciosas y contagiosas. Fiebres
Palabras clave
Malaltia
Covid-19
Mort
Dol
Fotografia epidèmica
Fotoperiodisme
Enfermedad
Covid-19
Muerte
Duelo
Fotografía epidémica
Fotoperiodismo
Disease
Covid-19
Death
Grief
Epidemic photography
Photojournalism
Páginas
17
Publicado por
Taylor & Francis Group
Colección
27;4
Publicado en
Mortality
Citación
Morcate, Montse; Pardo, Rebeca. Photographic narratives of Covid-19 during Spain’s state of emergency: images of death, dying and grief. Mortality, 2022, 27(4), p. 426-442. Disponible en: <https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13576275.2022.2141206>. Fecha de acceso: 21 dic. 2022. DOI: 10.1080/13576275.2022.2141206
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