Resumen

GAYOL, Víctor. Opaque transparency: Between truth and representation in documental photojournalism imagery. Relac. Estud. hist. soc. [online]. 2014, vol.35, n.140, pp.109-126. ISSN 2448-7554.

Photography was invented in the 19^th century as a technological resource for capturing and fixing images of reality through mechanical means. Accompanying this discovery was the idea that the images obtained reflected the surrounding world objectively and with exactitude. For this reason, documentary photojournalism acquired the character of offering truthful testimonies of reality. But the truth is that photographers were not simply inoffensive intermediaries in a mechanical process; quite to the contrary, their interventions created representations of the world that were plagued with modifications of the possible meanings of the referents of the images taken. This essay offers a brief exercise that invites debate on this phenomenon.

Palabras llave : documental photography; truth; representation.

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