Basın Fotoğraflarında Sanatsal Kaygı / Ölümün ve Şiddetin Kutsanması ve Yüceltilmesi
Artistic Concern in Press Photos Blessing and Exaltation of Death and Violence

Summary/Abstract: This study attempted to reveal that art hides consciousness, mechanisms of power/agents in social events, and that this logic is also reflected in such media as news media, sinema, television, etc. The study discussed that at times acting in the manner of the general principles, firstly of audiovisual entertainment/works of cinema and television, of art, photo-journalism glorifes and consecrates the victim and by doing this makes great ideologies invisible. The study analyzed comparatively with the photos awarded by World Press Photo and the products presented in the art branches such as Western sculpture, fresco and painting. In compliance with purposeful sampling, sample images were specified from the Renaissance Period. In the study, awarded photographs were examined comparatively with the works of the Renaissance Period in terms of technique and narration. By using Plato’s approach of art, especially art influence on emotional reason, the analysis aims to reveal that through the art, Christian-West creates a control mechanism by addressing the emotional sides of masses and suppressing rational consciousness; and that this mechanism is reflected press photography; and that in the field of photo journalism such conditions as violence and death are glorified/blessed due to rewarding-instrumentalization mechanisms. In sum, it was argued that photojournalist is an artist or not, and by using artistic techniques accumulating capital through death and violence, the consciousness of photojournalism was examined critically.

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