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Photo Report in the Magazine Ogonyokin the Years of Perestroika (1985−1991)

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For citation: Krasheninnikova M.A. (2017) Fotoreportazh v zhurnale «Ogonek» v gody perestroyki (1985−1991 gg.) [Photo Report in the Magazine Ogonyokin the Years of Perestroika (1985−1991)]. Mediaskop 2. (in Russian). Available at: http://www.mediascope.ru/2316

 

© Maria A. Krasheninnikova
Lecturer at the Chair of New Media and Theory of Communication, Faculty of Journalism, Lomonosov Moscow State University (Moscow, Russia), mashagarnova@gmail.com

 

Abstract

The article deals with the photo reports published in the magazine Ogonyok in the perestroika period. The author analyses the photos of 1985−1991 focusing on the evolution of the content of photo reports in the late USSR, underlines new topics covered by the magazine, analyses the changes in approaches to visual coverage of events in the country and abroad.

The research task is to define how the content of photo reports in the magazine Ogonyokhas evolved, reveal the dynamics of changes in the understanding of genre, material's placement on the pages of the magazine, and the place of photo report in the ideological system of the Soviet state.

The study included the analysis of photo reports' geography, thematic characteristics. The author addresses photo reports on the topic of politics focusing on the coverage of emergencies, culture, religion and sport.

The conducted research helped the author determine two chronological periods in the evolution of the Soviet photo report during the period of perestroika: 1985−1987 and 1988−1991. During the second period the changes in the coverage of the events of social and political nature with the use of photo reports. Basing on the example of the Ogonyokmagazine the author tracks the evolution of the Soviet photo reports of the perestroika period. Throughout seven years of political, economic and social transformation and reforms domestic photo reports have become more socially oriented, politically sensitive, they drew the attention of magazine's readers to the economic difficulties, accidents and catastrophes, political confrontation, international conflicts on the territory of the USSR, problems of society.

Keywords: photojournalism, photo report, magazine Ogonyok, the USSR.

 

Note

Interv'yu I.V. Gavrilova zhurnalu «Russkiy Reporter» [I. V. Gavrilov's Interview to the Magazine Russkiy Reporter (Russian Reporter)]. Available at: http://www.rusrep.ru/article/2013/03/24/gavrilov/ (aссessed: 13.08.2016).

 

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