The role of press photography in daily press is based on simultaneous acceptation of the role of photojournalist as neutral observer of the events and photography as the proof of depicted. However the uses of photojournalistic image-text often departs from this ideal (and ideology) of neutral, informative presentation of events into their interpretation, which can be achieved either through the nature of image or through the use of text.Such images bear strong dominantly encoded message that can frame or mislead the perception of readers about the nature of the event and represent the violation of professional as well as legal norms of separating informativeand interpretative messages in the press. Through textual analysis of image-text use in Slovene daily paper Delo, author presents the frequency and methods of deviations from and contesting of practice of photographic realism as well as offers a preliminary comparison of Delo's use of press photography in 1994 and in 2004.
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