Fotografías desde donde el mundo se llama Galicia

Margarita Ledo Andión

doi:10.4185/RLCS-2010-889-146-158

Authors

Margarita Ledo Andión University of Santiago de Compostela https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2001-1498

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4185/RLCS-2010-889-146-158

Keywords:

Photojournalism, Galicia, visual culture, Pepe Sáez, Manuel Ferrol, Xosé Castro, Fernando Bellas

Abstract

If our main goal is to reconstruct the history of photojournalism in Galicia from the photograph as part of the journalistic discourse, it leads us to confirm some uncertainties that disable a linear story by being unable to construct, much less in the case of a social institution as the press, the period leading to the Second Republic with the long years of dictatorship, nor able to extract a major influence by the photographic practices of the early years of political transition in the subsequent configuration of the role of photojournalism in the media enterprises. This study tries to establish an anthropological link between certain images, to punctuate the signification of the photographic act and, finally, to highlight the value of the act of viewing, and the photos remembered, those images that among all the other images are ours, and we recover them so that other people love them too.

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Author Biography

Margarita Ledo Andión, University of Santiago de Compostela

Margarita Ledo Andión, professor of audiovisual communication at the University of Santiago de Compostela, USC, and director of the “Estudos Audiovisuais” Group of that University, is principal investigator of the project “Cinema, Diversity and Networks” of the National R&D Plan ( 2008-2011) and the R + D + i program of the INCITE "Lusophony: interactividade e interculturalidade" Program.

Her line of work on geo-linguistic spaces and interculturality led her to lead several European studies such as the one that gave rise to the work, in co-authorship with Jacques Guyot and Roland Michon, Production televisée et identité culturelle, PUR, Rennes, 2000. It is co -Editor, with Professor Tapio Varis, from Galicia-Finland: Ways of thinking, CCG, Santiago de Compostela, 2002.

Her studies on the politics of representation in the photographic and cinematographic documentary image are reflected in works such as Cine de photographers, Gustavo Gili, Barcelona, 2005, Prize ”Fundació Espais d’ Art Comtemporani ”; Del Cine Ojo a Dogma 95, Paidós, Barcelona, 2004; Photographic Documentalism, Cátedra, Madrid, 1998, or in Contemporary Photographic Documentalism: gives innocence to lucidity, Xerais, Vigo, 1995.

She belongs, among others, to the editorial and scientific council of Trípodos, Ramón Llull University; Catalan Journal of Communication and Cultural Studies, Universitat Rovira i Virgil; Quaderns del CAC, Consell de l’Audiovisual de Catalunya; Infoamérica, UNESCO Chair at the University of Malaga; Photographic Speeches, State University of Londrina, Brazil, or the Latin American Journal of Communication Sciences, of ALAIC.

She chairs the Galician Association of Communication Researchers, AGACOM. She is First Vice President of the Spanish Association for Communication Research, AE-IC and she is part of the leadership of the Federaçao lusofona de ciências da comunicaçao, LUSOCOM and the Ibero-American Association of Communication Sciences, ASSIBERCOM.

Filmmaker and writer, among his films is the documentary Santa Liberdade (2004) or Liste, pronounced Líster (2007), is the “National Prize for Galician Culture in the film and audiovisual modality, 2008” and numerary of the Royal Galician Academy, RAG . She is a poet and storyteller, she wrote texts for Joan Fontcuberta's photographic series “Barcelona, entre chien et loup” and published, with photos by Anna Turbau, “Linguas Mortas. Radio serial ”, Sotelo Blanco, 1989.

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