Semiotic analysis of advertising by Oliviero Toscani for Benetton

Authors

  • Karina Spinelli Gera
  • Camila de Araújo Beraldo Ludovice

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.47456/simbitica.v3i1.28462

Abstract

This study aims to analyze six images on the same theme and figure produced by Italian photographer and publicist Oliviero Toscani, for Benetton brand campaigns. The selected images are inserted in the book “Advertising is smiling carrion” . The theoretical framework of French semiotics and its development of plastic and semi-semiotic symbolism will use should be made. The selected images were produced for the collection of the brand United Colors of Benetton between 1989 to 1993 and address issues of social, political and religious. Therefore, try to describe the meaning constructed in noverbal through plastic semiotics and semissimbolismo.

Keywords: photography; advertising; semiotic-plastic; semi-symbolism.

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Author Biographies

Karina Spinelli Gera

Mestre em Linguística pela Universidade de Franca. Franca, Brasil. E-mail: karinagera@gmail.com

Camila de Araújo Beraldo Ludovice

Doutora em Linguística e Língua Portuguesa pela UNESP-Araraquara. Professora permanente do Programa de Mestrado em Linguística da Universidade de Franca. Franca, Brasil. E-mail: camilaludovice@gmail.com

Published

31-07-2016

How to Cite

Gera, K. S., & Ludovice, C. de A. B. (2016). Semiotic analysis of advertising by Oliviero Toscani for Benetton. Simbiótica. Revista Eletrônica, 3(1), 18–53. https://doi.org/10.47456/simbitica.v3i1.28462

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