The Nicaraguan Conflict in 1979 in Veja Magazine: The Work of the Photographer and the Editorial Decisions

Abstract

This paper seeks to present how Veja diagrammed and presented to the reader the photographs of Pedro Martinelli, while covering the conflict of the Civil War in Nicaragua, in 1979. From a work that uses oral and visual source, I try to understand how the editorship of photograph worked with the photographic production about the conflicts in the Central American country. Photographs of Martinelli, together with the photo editor working from Sergio Sade, composes a sort of Veja`s photojournalism in this report. I try to realize from Vilches (1997) and Meneses (2004), how were these photos presented to the reader? Which photos dialogue with Martinelli's work in other journals, as in Newsweek, in the same period? These and other issues related to photojournalism context in the 1970s will be discussed in this article.