The Military Dictatorship in Brazil and the Photojournalism (1964-1985)

The research focuses on the role played by photojournalism in the press during the military dictatorship. The aim it is to understand how the relationship between the newspapers «Folha de S. Paulo» and «Jornal do Brasil» with the military that were in power for two decades evolved. The hypothesis was that both newspapers elaborated a dialectical process of discursive reorganization on what the dictatorship was, reveling consequently, an updated attitude towards those who governed the country and how it was enunciated themselves as a newspaper. Were verified significant changes that occurred during the period under consideration, first and foremost through the extensive use of images, were a response to the increasing complexity of relations in Brazilian society. Given the centrality of discursive production as a useful tool to achieve certain political and economic objectives, the photograph language and the verbo-visual tools interaction in the pages of newspapers were analyzed in a dialogical key, resorting to certain categories and concepts present in the thought of Bakhtin’s Circle and Antonio Gramsci.