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| Author(s): |
Aline Ferreira Gomes
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas |
| Defense date: | 2017-03-29 |
| Examining board members: |
Omar Ribeiro Thomaz;
Mauricius Martins Farina
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| Advisor: | Jorge Sidney Coli Junior |
| Abstract | |
This dissertation deals with the work of the Carioca photographer Alair Gomes (1921-1992), who produced a large number of male body pictures from the 1960s to the middle of the 1980s. It focuses on the male representation scenes in the series Glimpses of America that includes 1527 photographs made during the artists second trip to the United States between the years 1975 and 1976. The series presents unknown photographs made by Gomes to of the general public, which often knows only his photographs of young men at the beaches of Rio. Glimpses of America deals with urban, and rural and coastal landscapes, with American architecture, the inside of museums, the Asian young people, and the country side workers. A series that reflect the specificities of the masculine world. Although Gomes was unfamiliar to the culture and territory of USA, this dissertation aims to demonstrate the adaptation of the photographer to maintain the coherence of his work in a series that reinforces the fascination to the male body. A large part of the material in this dissertation belongs to the Alair Gomes photographic collection of The Brazilian National Library at Rio de Janeiro, still vast and unexplored, and our set focuses on some works not studied and unpublished (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 14/01441-3 - The photography of Alair Gomes |
| Grantee: | Aline Ferreira Gomes |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Master |