Imagens insurgentes, mulheres e negros no acervo fotográfico de Gilda e Antonio Candido de Mello e Souza

• Autor(a) principal: Moraes, Laura Escorel De [UNIFESP]
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNIFESP
• Texto Completo: https://sucupira.capes.gov.br/sucupira/public/consultas/coleta/trabalhoConclusao/viewTrabalhoConclusao.jsf?popup=true&id_trabalho=8197825; https://repositorio.unifesp.br/handle/11600/59399
• topic: Photography; Personal Archives; Image; Memory; Fotografia; Acervos Pessoais; Imagem; Memória

An investigation of photography in personal collections, notably researching a collection put together by Gilda and Antonio Candido de Mello e Souza in the course of their personal trajectories. Although the collection contains about 5000 images, produced over a 170-year span of time , the dissertation prioritizes a subset produced between the mid-nineteenth century and the early decades of the twentieth century, covering little-known or rarely published images. This also allowed us to proceed to the analysis of the transformations and continuities within Brazilian society. Initially, the owners of the collection are presented, followed by the techniques found in the collection - such as daquerreotype, cyanotype and planotype, with next the photographers who created the images and the places where the photographs were stored by the couple. Subsequently the (under) representation, in the collection, of women and black people, is analyzed, both in quantitative and qualitative terms. Throughout the dissertation, attention is paid to the materiality of the images and emphasis is placed on the presence of vernacular photography. It is a transdisciplinary work that broaches visual anthropology, art history and cultural management, among other fields of knowledge.