Visual Meanings and Vectors of Immersion: plastic regimes of the beholder s entailment in the visual forms of photojournalism Sentido Visual e Vetores de Imerso: regimes plsticos da implicao do espectador nas formas visuais do fotojornalismo

We intend to examine some aspects of visual discursivity in photojournalism and their relations to the beholderss instancy active role. Once considered the passional and sensorial frameworks of visual meaning from these images, the article acknowledges the consolidation of a model for the visual arrest of actions in photojournalism which is based on the principle of their subjects actualization, plastically manifested in the instants spatialization, as a central element of the processes of implicating the audiences previous visual experiences. In such aesthetic dimension of visual testimony, we also invoke the ethos of images of suffering and the principle of reciprocity that enables their semantical features along with the dedramatization of the instant in contemporary photojournalism. Propomos examinar aspectos da discursividade visual do fotojornalismo e sua relao com o papel ativo da instncia espectatorial. Considerado o quadro patmico e sensorial da significao visual destas imagens, o artigo constata a consolidao de um modelo da rendio fotogrfica baseado no princpio da atualidade, plasticamente manifesto na espacializao do instante, como elemento central dos processos de implicao do espectador. Nesta dimenso esttica do testemunho visual, invoca-se tambm o ethos das imagens de sofrimento e o princpio da reciprocidade que elas mantm com o olhar do leitor, assim como a desdramatizao do instante no fotojornalismo contemporneo.