Photographic Rhetoric and Literary Journalism

Abstract

Specialized texts have studied the relationship between journalism and literature, but have not considered another important fusion: photography and literary journalism. The conjunction of these two text types, visual and written, particularly when both approach their subject from an aesthetic angle, increases journalistic efficiency. In the same way that a writer uses a series of linguistic resources to construct text, the photographer uses techniques to do the same. KRAMER describes the characteristics of literary journalism and we will consider whether it is possible to adapt these features to photojournalism. The present paper describes some prime guidelines that literary journalism shares with photojournalism, and highlights the fact that without photographic analysis of the images in literary journalistic texts, the study of this kind of story is incomplete.