Empathetic storytelling in reportage photography by Ryszard Kapuściński: image, text, context

• Published in: Media, kultura, komunikacja społeczna Vol. 20; no. 1; pp. 139 - 153
• Main Author: Wysocka, Aneta
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Warmińsko-Mazurskiego w Olsztynie 2024; Publishing House of University of Warmia and Mazury
• Subjects: Media studies; Photography; Pragmatics; Semantics; Sociology of Art; reportage photography; verbalvisual messages; multimodality; works of Ryszard Kapuściński; semantics of photography; contextualisation of the image

This article contains a semantic and pragmatic analysis of Ryszard Kapuściński’s reportage photographs, published in the first editions of his books and in his original photo albums. The findings of cognitive and cultural linguistics are the methodological basis for the study (Mandler, Taylor, van D...