The Industrial Photography and the Steel Company Archive of Puerto de Sagunto: Representation, Power and Identity (1944-1976)

This article makes a contribution on photo - documentary archives in the steel industry as a source of knowledge and sociological tool. It deals with the case of documentary photo archive Altos Hornos de Vizcaya and Altos Hornos del Mediterraneo in Sagunto (Puerto) between 1944 and 1976. The article...

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Published in:Revista española de investigaciones sociológicas 2015-01 (149), p.65-86
Main Author: Roig, Gonzalo Montiel
Format: Article
Language:eng ; spa
Subjects:
Discourse
Identity
Knowledge
Metal Industry
Power
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Summary:This article makes a contribution on photo - documentary archives in the steel industry as a source of knowledge and sociological tool. It deals with the case of documentary photo archive Altos Hornos de Vizcaya and Altos Hornos del Mediterraneo in Sagunto (Puerto) between 1944 and 1976. The article discusses the need to analyze the role of company photographers and his role as 'rapporteurs' of labor and social discourse of the company. We analyze the photographic archive as 'artifact of power' with a narrative structure and autonomous with functionality within the industrial process related to the generation of a structure of symbolic and identity discourses. Adapted from the source document.
ISSN:0210-5233
DOI:10.5477/cis/reis.149.65