A cobertura fotojornalística da visita de D. Manuel II ao Porto, em novembro de 1908, pela Ilustração Portuguesa: informação e propaganda

Abstract

The brief reign of King Manuel II was geared towards making the constitutional monarchy viable. The first trip as king was to Porto since no studies have been found on the journalistic coverage of this event. This research aims fill this gap by analyzing the discourse of the magazine Ilustração Portuguesa, at the time the Portuguese magazine with the largest circulation, with an emphasis on iconography. A qualitative and quantitative methodology was used. It was concluded that the journalistic coverage of the royal visit to Porto focused on the royal figure, the attitudes of reverence towards the sovereign and the "crowd baths", resulting in a narrative favorable to the monarchy as a social institution in tune with the people. It was also concluded that the concept of photographic reporting was based on the elaboration of a chronological narrative of the event through the juxtaposition of photographic snapshots that accompanied the sequence of actions, interspersed with photographs of spaces and characters.