This paper is an analysis of press photography published during El Cordobazo, a mass social outbreak considered a major historical event in the late sixties in Argentina (May, 1969). This historic context was witness to the beginning of major changes in journalistic discourses that accompanied deep socio-political changes.



The article compares the way two different press media registered and reported on the facts: La Razón, a traditional newspaper created in 1905 and Siete Días, a magazine founded in 1967. The formal aspects taken for this comparative perspective are the photographic production itself and photographers’ techniques, as they give significant clues about changes in journalistic approaches as well as socio-political shifts. How and why these two publications published contrasting images of the same social demonstration are the final questions this paper strives to answer.