Photograph archive in the IPHAN: Herman Hugo Graeser, power and memory

• Grant number: 11/17522-4
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate
• Start date: June 01, 2012
• End date: March 31, 2015
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - History - History of Brazil
• Principal Investigator: Iara Lis Franco Schiavinatto
• Grantee: Eduardo Augusto Costa
• Host Institution: Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas (IFCH). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 06/55991-8 - Plus ultra reception and cultural transfer of the classic art tradition between Mediterranean Europe and Latin America, AP.TEM

Abstract

Through IPHAN/SP's photography archive, specifically the first series of documents made by Herman Hugo Graeser - Germano - and the ones linked with the architecture that had been showed in the first paulista activity reports, this research claims to recognize how SPHAN constructed a referential archive of photographs to the Brazilian heritage. By the photography as a privileged medium to the documentation of popular manifestations, arts and, especially, architecture, this research searches the construction of this archive, responsible for the stabilization of a narrative. It stood out the archive as a potential place of legitimize a narrative, a speech, a memory, in this case, essentially to the understanding of the official narrative - the legitimated SPHAN's history - and, still, as determinative to be thought today, the future of history. (AU)

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

COSTA, Eduardo Augusto. Archive, power, memory : Herman Hugo Graeser and the IPHAN's photo archive. 2015. Doctoral Thesis - Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas.