Iconic photographs are symbolically dense images characterized by broad circulation over time and recognition by large publics. Following this definition, we track the republication and reframing, over nearly 70 years, of 15 news photographs previously identified as most recognized by the Israeli public. Distinguishing between “discrete icons” (singular photographs of particular scenes) and “aggregate icons” (where several variants of the same event are continually reproduced), our quantitative and qualitative analyses show that iconic images are both resistant to the passing of time and kept in motion through renewed media use. We identify four “iconic modalities,” corresponding to different ways in which iconic status and meanings are achieved, transformed, or denied through republishing and reframing. This concept improves our understanding of iconicity as a fluctuating material and symbolic process, whereby the circulation of images not only produces shifts in meaning, but constructs powerful aggregative frameworks of collective visual memory.

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标志性新闻图像如何传播：在以色列报纸上重新发布和重新编排历史照片

标志性照片是具有象征意义的密集图像，其特点是随着时间的推移广泛流传并得到广大公众的认可。按照这个定义，我们跟踪了近 70 年来 15 幅以前被以色列公众认定为最受认可的新闻照片的再版和重新编排。区分“离散图标”（特定场景的单一照片）和“聚合图标”（同一事件的多个变体不断复制），我们的定量和定性分析表明，标志性图像既能抵抗时间的流逝，又能保持通过更新的媒体使用来推动。我们确定了四种“标志性模式”，对应于通过重新发布和重新构建来实现、转换或否认标志性地位和意义的不同方式。