Photobiography : for a methodology of the aesthetic in antropology

Author(s)

Fabiana Bruno

• Document type: Doctoral Thesis
• Institution: Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Artes
• Defense date: 2009-00-00

Examining board members

Eduardo Penuela Canizal; Clarice Ehlers Peixoto; Ronaldo Entler; Francisco Elinaldo Teixeira

• Advisor: Etienne Ghislain Samain

Abstract

The Photobiobraphies of elderly presented in this thesis rose from a methodological approch which priorized and gave emphasis to the work of images, though not despising the oral expression. The images, being by themselves, full of memories could, differently from the oral expression, "reflect", "think", "rediscover", "forget" the memory of old people. Based on the visual expression, this reseach was developped in different stages working with sets of 20, 10 and 3 photos. Five Visual Arrangements as well as five Photobiographies are attached to the thesis. The oral and the visual expressions contained in them have their own characteristic that is, share in different ways the same task: they represent an old person's life as a short film that he/she can assemble, disassemble or reassemble. (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 05/01636-0 - Pictures of the old age: from the photographs to images of memory: a methodological and cognitive way
• Grantee: Fabiana Bruno
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate