Augusto Cabrita's photography: contributions to Portuguese photojournalism

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https://doi.org/10.12795/RiCH.2022.i18.11

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Communication, Augusto Cabrita, Photojournalism, Portugal

Abstract

Augusto Cabrita is considered one of the main names of Portuguese photojournalism in the 20th century. His style marks a period in which photography, and especially photojournalism, gained new approaches, more focused on the human within photography. Cabrita went beyond and explored light like few others, creating unique images through contrasts, shadows, and geometric compositions. The photographer is recognized for his work in television and cinema, however, studies on his contributions to Portuguese photojournalism are still scarce and fragmented. This article intends to gather, based on bibliographic and documental research and testimonials from names of Portuguese photography that lived with the photographer, singular aspects of Augusto Cabrita's personality and work that contributed to the development of photojournalism in Portugal. It also intends to analyze some of his photographs from the theories of photojournalistic image analysis, in order to identify the main characteristics that Cabrita printed to his work and that mark an epoch in the Portuguese photojournalism. The research concludes that Augusto Cabrita's contributions present an innovative visual language and mark a paradigm shift in journalistic photography in Portugal.

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Denise Guimarães-Guedes, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Brasil

PhD student in Communication at PPG-COM/Unesp with a CAPES scholarship for a Erasmus doctorate in Portugal, at Fernando Pessoa University, from Sep./2020 to Feb./2021. Master's degree (2015) from the Graduate Design Program of the Faculty of Architecture, Arts, Communication and Design - FAAC - of Universidade Estadual Paulista, UNESP. Bachelor's Degree (1997) in Industrial Design - Visual Programming (currently Design), from Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho (1997).

Português, Universidade Fernando Pessoa, Portugal

Jorge Pedro Sousa, graduated in Social Communication - Journalism at the School of Journalism of Porto (Oporto, Portugal, 1992), achieved his PhD degree in Journalism at the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain, 1997), where he also conducted his postdoctoral research (1999/2000). He became a tenured professor at the University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro (2008), in Journalism, and is currently teaching in University Fernando Pessoa (Oporto, Portugal). He has explored the field of journalism and historical analysis of journalistic discourse.

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2022-06-27

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Guimarães-Guedes, D., & Pedro Sousa, J. . (2022). Augusto Cabrita’s photography: contributions to Portuguese photojournalism. RIHC. Revista Internacional De Historia De La Comunicación, (18), 184–205. https://doi.org/10.12795/RiCH.2022.i18.11

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No. 18 (2022): The press as a historical agent in the face of nationalism, decentralization and autonomy (20th century)

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