Communicative strategy and photography in Edgar Neville's Purge Process (1936-1940)
Abstract
The object of this text is to study the communicative status of the photos present in the purge file opened by Franco's regime to examine the conduct of the filmmaker and diplomat Edgar Neville regarding the National Movement. The rules for the depuration of civil servants indicated that they could present "documents of proof" that proved either their adhesion or their services to the National Movement. We hypothesize that these photographs, whether or not shot as evidence, lack this communicative status, and their presence in the file illustrates the irregularities and chaos surrounding the whole process of Franco's purge.
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