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| Author(s): |
Thales Valeriani Graña Diniz
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | Artes. 2018-10-25. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp). Faculdade de Arquitetura. Artes. Comunicação e Design. Bauru |
| Defense date: | 2018-08-27 |
| Advisor: | Maria Cristina Gobbi |
| Abstract | |
Photographs are social facts that represent certain subjects in an ideological perspective of reality construction. Its construction and reading are linked to historical, ideological, technological and social facts. The images that represent social groups not happen by chance, there are a number of socio-historical factors that influence their elaboration, as well as their production of meaning that is also constructed from the context in which the receiver is inserted. That said, this research articulates aspects of the photographic language, its presumption in representing a concrete reality, with the construction of identities in the Brazilian empire age, specifically, the exploration of the concept of exotic and "Other" in the productions of that historical moment. Therefore, an analysis is made to understand how the imperial family was photographed in contrast to other social groups during the Brazilian empire in part of the reign of Dom Pedro II, between 1852 and 1885, during which time Alberto Henschel and Revert Henrique Klumb worked in the country. Both of them were holders of the title of Photographers of the Imperial House and portrayed landscapes, the imperial family, members of the aristocracy, slaves and people of the popular classes whose works compose the nineteenth century imaginary national. It presents a general picture of the photography of that time, besides an analysis of the composition techniques mobilized in its productions and how the photographic language can approach the social imaginary in function of already existing concepts. As the representation of the economic and political elite is made, what is the relation between such productions and historical events, such as slaves and people of the popular classes are represented and the productions of meanings of such portraits are some of the questions that this research intends to answer using a hybrid methodological approach between the analysis of image connotations proposed by Barthes and Eco, which indicate a reading in its denotative, structural, connotative, sociocultural scope. As a result, there is a communication pact between photographers and their consumers based on Eurocentric values and identities mobilized by the exotic, in what must be shown or omitted in relation to the epoch society. Another central characteristic is the absence of elements as a form of signification and dissemination of the Crown's values, given the non-registration of the violence of a slave regime and also the lack of objects that refer to royalty, such as crown and mantle, for example, in visual records of the emperor and his family, creating the idea of austere and worthy members to exercise the power entrusted to them. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 16/16679-0 - The imagetics construction of Brazilian elites in contrast to other social groups in the Alberto Henschel and Revert Henrique Klumb photographs: Sociocultural practices and their sense productions |
| Grantee: | Thales Valeriani Grana Diniz |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Master |