Humor and graphic arts: the representation of black people in the magazine Semana Illustrada (1860-1876)

Author(s)

Bruna Oliveira Santiago

• Document type: Master's Dissertation
• Press: São Paulo.
• Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD)
• Defense date: 2017-03-17

Examining board members

Solange Ferraz de Lima; Marcos da Costa Braga; Elias Thome Saliba

• Advisor: Solange Ferraz de Lima

Abstract

This research aims to analyse the magazine Semana Illustrada, managed by the prussian Henrique Fleiuss, focusing on the representation of black people and slavery. The magazine circulated in Rio de Janeiro between 1860 and 1876 and plays a pioneer role concerning the use of images in the press. The new technologies associated to the demand for images incited the appearing and consolidation of illustrated press. The invention and popularization of photography evinced a society avid for images and in process of transformation and elaboration of a visual education. This research intends to reflect upon the images found in Semana Illustrada that refers to the black people and the slave in order to understand the vision of this vehicle of communication about the subject as part of social life in Rio de Janeiro by the second half of nineteenth century. The brazilian context is peculiar once there was a society pretending to be modern, that nevertheless cohabited with a big contingent of slave work force. Study this images is to discover the visual culture of an emblematic time for Brazil. (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 14/00216-6 - The images of urban slavery in the court: Semana Ilustrada (1860-1876)
• Grantee: Bruna Oliveira Santiago
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master