Etienne Ghislain Samain

• Abstract

  This work makes use of images to compose a memory documentation and imagery of the community buddhist of the Nikkyoji central temple, which belongs to the current Japanese Honmon Butsuryu-shu (HBS), located in São Paulo. We consider here the fact of the HBS to be the oldest Buddhist aspect in Brazil, reaching the country in 1908, under the hands of the priest Issui Ibaragui. We have at ou…

  The use of the photographic image as a source of documentation and memory: a tour of the buddhist tradition of the Nikkyoji temple, BP.MS

• Abstract

  Art rediscovers itself, today, as a privileged substrate of human cultures and witness of its various expressions and representations. In parallel, Anthropology (Visual, specially) realizes that images do not exist in our imaginary and in turn societies could not emerge without the Arts. In this scenery, alongside with authors such as Hans Belting, Alfred Gell and, mainly, Georges Didi-Hu…

  Thinking the world through images: times and spaces in the work of Alex Flemming, BP.MS

• Abstract

  This reseach analyzes the relation of photography with the representation of the picture developed by urban groups through the practice of graffiti as an aspect of the study taking pictures with the process of developing the culture of the individuals in the urban area. The image of graffiti, with its own data signic along with other images in the environment from which the graffiti is do…

  Photoethnography: the photographic act in intriguing speech graffiti, BP.MS

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