In the extreme border of the visible: discourses about national identity in photo reports of Pierre Verger in O Cruzeiro (1946-1951)

• Autor(a) principal: Luz Ramos, Júlia Capovilla
• Data de Publicação: 2013
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Discursos Fotográficos
• Texto Completo: https://ojs.uel.br/revistas/uel/index.php/discursosfotograficos/article/view/16899
• topic: Discursive network; Photo report; Pierre Verger; O Cruzeiro; National identity.; Teses e Dissertações. Fotojornalismo. Rede discursiva. Pierre Verger - Fotógrafo. O Cruzeiro. Identidade Nacional.

How do the photographic reports of folk festivals in the northeast ofBrazil, made by Pierre Verger for the magazine O Cruzeiro (1946-1951), relate to the construction of the Brazilian nation in the “Vargas Era”? To answer this problem question, Michel Foucault (1926-1984) points out one way: through the speeches. It is intended, in this work, to discuss what the contributions of Pierre Verger photo reports were, in order to build a national identity from 1946 to 1951. Those photographics published in O Cruzeiro suggest an array of invisibility and visibility by articulating the discourse of the State, the magazine and the photographer himself (“author”), forming a network, without, however, making evident such operation or restrict it to what is inside the imaging picture. Nonetheless, it is about imprisoning such photographs in a pedagogical discourse proposed by theNewState, because, at the same time, they show an effort to escape from the episteme of the time.