Photojournalism: Affects of the Real

This paper explores the privileged evocation of affect accorded to the photograph as a record of the real world. Taking extreme examples, in the canon of photojournalism assembled around the Pulitzer Prize, the possibility of the communication of cultural difference is weighed against the commodification of the intercultural experience which photojournalism epitomises: that all things can be seen the same way by all viewers, 'literally', or seen 'for what they are'.

Associate Professor Robyn Ferrell, School of Philosophy, University of Tasmania