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Archive, power, memory : Herman Hugo Graeser and the IPHAN's photo archive

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Author(s):
Eduardo Augusto Costa
Total Authors: 1
Document type: Doctoral Thesis
Institution: Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas
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Examining board members:
Paulo César Garcez Marins; Flávia Brito do Nascimento; Claudia Valladão de Mattos; Silvana Barbosa Rubino
Advisor: Iara Lis Franco Schiavinatto
Abstract

The present work refers to the first fifty years of the trajectory of The National Historic and Artistic Heritage Institute ¿ IPHAN ¿ created in 1937 in Brazil. The central point of thought is its Photo Archive, understood as an institution of knowledge were is archived not only visual information about the activities and works but were is archived the knowledge itself, the science that mobilize this Institution. Therefore, this work recognizes the documents produced directly and indirectly by Herman Hugo Graeser, an `Expert in Fine Arts¿, that worked in IPHAN from 1937 to 1966. His contribution is singular not only by indicating the structure of knowledge produced by this Institute, but also by reveling the changes occurred in the narrative and the discourse. Thus, after presenting its structure and its protocols, is indicate the place of the Photo Archive in a Brazilian particular context, but also in its relation to the emergence of institutions, scientific protocols, regulations and international conventions. From this perspective, is presented how the documentary procedure remained tied to a particular relationship with the museums and with the restoration practice, indicating the importance of the Photo Archive in the organization of an entire structure of national cultural. Finally, a change in its protocols is debated, locating the Photo Archive facing a new context, shaped by end of the Brazilian dictatorship, between the 1970¿s and the 1980¿s. It is argued, therefore, that the IPHAN¿s Photo Archive is an intrinsic institution to the maintenance of this Institute (AU)

FAPESP's process: 11/17522-4 - Photograph archive in the IPHAN: Herman Hugo Graeser, power and memory
Grantee:Eduardo Augusto Costa
Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate