Time revealed: photojournalism and the construction of meanings

Abstract

This article proposes raising aspects of how photojournalism has had the same level of importance that the communication from the beginning of the modern journalism in early XX century. The photojournalism arises in this scenario as a key foundational elements of Modernity, to be seen or read as nonverbal discourse. We bring these elements to see how nonverbal texts in important contribution in the construction of meaning in a particular time and place media objects from print journalism, in the architecture of a memory.