Abstract
This paper presents and discusses a conceptual perspective on the relationship between documentary photography and testimonial literature. The conceptual perspective focuses on the performative aspect of language, in the case of testimonial literature (speech act), and raises the possibility of understanding documentary photographic images from this same performative aspect, as an image act. This theoretical procedure involves a philosophical assessment of our concepts of justice and of the foundations for an analysis of the representation of political violence, in images and words. From this literary and photographic plane, it is possible to bring forth another justice and another study of images of guerrilla armed conflicts in Central America.
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