Processual perspectives in the image study: the point of view from the text and the point of view from the discourse

Abstract

Undestanding the image as a whole of signification, manifested as a text, in which the material and the operations that the enunciation uses would be situated, the intention of this work is to understand, using the mentioned concept, the hidden sense, revealed on the own enunciated spot. The aim is to identify strategies of composition in the press photography, showing that under the concrete scene lies a way of telling. It's interesting to examine the way the referent is potencialized, making us see, "read", beyond the sense that is shown by the plane of expression. Based on this, the theory created by Jacques Fontanille, based in the greimasian tradition, was used, and it forsees the grasp of the specifics characteristics of the textual manifestation beginning with the different abstraction instances, also divided in levels of depth.