Reality and imaginary in the Chernobyl images

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https://doi.org/10.5216/hr.v26i2.67743

Abstract

The present article proposes a reflection on contemporary photography focused on the traces of the historical event, and seeks to understand how the memory of trauma is inscribed in the images. For this, i will take as an empirical corpus some images from the La Zone project, by the french photographer Guillaume Herbaut. They are images made in the radioactive zone of Chernobyl, 24 years after the nuclear accident of 1986, in Ukraine. From a clipping i select some images of the project in which the photographer plays with the ambiguities and gaps of the images. These are images that point to the simultaneity between past and present and open space for the imaginary and fictionalization.

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Dunya Azevedo, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belorizonte, Minas Gerais, Brasil, dunya.azevedo@gmail.com

Doutora em Comunicação Social pela Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, com período sanduíche na Université Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne (Paris/França);

Published

2021-11-04

How to Cite

AZEVEDO, D. Reality and imaginary in the Chernobyl images. História Revista, Goiânia, v. 26, n. 2, p. 166–183, 2021. DOI: 10.5216/hr.v26i2.67743. Disponível em: https://revistas.ufg.br/historia/article/view/67743. Acesso em: 19 oct. 2024.

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Dossiê "Cultura e barbárie: o mundo em tempos extremos"