The photographic edition as a visual narrative construction

Abstract

This article, based on the concept of intellectual montage, developed by russian movie director Sergei Eisenstein, works in the premises that the photographic edition may be responsible for the construction of a visual narrative. Thus, it adopts a photographic essay composed of 26 pictures and sends it to three specialists for edition. The results are three different narratives. With this, it becomes evident that the photographic message may undergo a creative rearrange and compose distinctive enunciation discourses. At the end, the work shows that the differences between the discourses elaborated by the editors are captured by the receiver of the photographic message.