Registros de memória em imagens: usos e funções da fotografia mortuária em contexto familiar na cidade de Bela Vista de Goiás (1920-1960)

• Autor(a) principal: BORGES, Déborah Rodrigues
• Data de Publicação: 2008
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFG
• Texto Completo: http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tde/2766
• topic: fotografia mortuária; memória; família; Bela Vista de Goiás; décadas de 1920 a 1960; mortuary photografhie; memory; family; Bela Vista de Goiás; 1920 to 1960 decades; CNPQ::LINGUISTICA, LETRAS E ARTES::ARTES::FOTOGRAFIA

The research Registros de memória em imagens: usos e funções da fotografia mortuária em contexto familiar na cidade de Bela Vista de Goiás (1920 – 1960) proposes analysis about the ways in which bereaved families used the portraits of the deceased during the mourning period. For this, we fixed the town of Bela Vista de Goiás as the space for research, trying to establish relations between the content expressed in the photographs collected in the town and the cultural context that was around the production and use of these images. The mortuary portrait appeared practically at the same time of the photographic technique, and enjoyed a great social acceptance in Brazil and in other western societies until the middle of the twentieth century. There are certain ideas expressed in these portraits of a Christian collective mentality about death, especially the imaginary about the good and the beautiful death. In Bela Vista de Goiás we found the interference of the Catholic faith in the building and in several uses that families of the town have did with the pictures of their dead, as a way of keeping alive his memory. This study, therefore, try to contribute with discussions about the collective attitudes towards death and death rituals, and reflect about a specific type of use of the photograph in a process of building family memories.