The Photographic Metaphor: Heartfield, Brecht, Sebald Laguna Martínez, Ana Photography Semiotics Metaphor Umberto Eco John Heartfield Bertolt Brecht W. G. Sebald Fotografía Semiótica Metáfora This article is part of my PhD thesis as Teaching and research staff (PDI) funded by the Training Programme for University Teaching Staff (FPU), UGR Research and Knowledge Transfer Fund (PPIT), especially as a result of a researching stay at Durham University. I am very grateful to Professor Jonathan J. Long, who received me so kindly at Durham University. This work is result of that experience and what I learned from him. From a semiotic point of view, photography is still considered a different kind of sign. Then, how can imagetext works be studied, formed by photography and word? This article argues that fictional texts expose the semiotic nature of photographs, showing that photographs are signs, different from their referents. The fictional, intermedial texts studied here are John Heartfield’s, Bertolt Brecht’s, and W.G. Sebald’s: three authors linked by German history. In the light of Umberto Eco’s semiotics, photographs can also be considered metaphors, enable to provide a new kind of iconicity and to overcome their realistic weight. Desde un punto de vista semiótico, la fotografía todavía se considera un tipo diferente de signo. Entonces, ¿cómo se pueden estudiar las obras de imagen y texto formadas por fotografía y palabra? Este artículo sostiene que los textos de ficción exponen la naturaleza semiótica de las fotografías, mostrando que las fotografías son signos que difieren de sus referentes. Los textos de ficción e intermediales aquí estudiados son los de John Heartfield, Bertolt Brecht y W.G. Sebald: tres autores vinculados por la historia de Alemania. A la luz de la semiótica de Umberto Eco, las fotografías también pueden considerarse metáforas, capaces de aportar un nuevo tipo de iconicidad y superar su peso realista. 2022-01-11T08:43:10Z 2022-01-11T08:43:10Z 2021-11-24 info:eu-repo/semantics/article Laguna Martínez, A. (2021). La metáfora fotográfica: Heartfield, Brecht, Sebald. Escritura e Imagen, 17, 69-87. [https://doi.org/10.5209/esim.78934] http://hdl.handle.net/10481/72298 10.5209/esim.78934 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Atribución 3.0 España Universidad Complutense de Madrid