page_title: Culture of Brazil
section_title: Photography
hierarchical_section_title: Culture of Brazil / Visual arts / Photography
caption_attribution_description: English: Impressos de literatura de cordel à venda no Rio de Janeiro.
context_page_description: The culture of Brazil is primarily Western and is derived from Portuguese culture, but presents a very diverse nature showing that an ethnic and cultural mixing occurred in the colonial period involving mostly Indigenous people of the coastal and most accessible riverine areas, Portuguese people and African people. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, together with further waves of Portuguese colonization, Italians, Spaniards, Germans, Austrians, Levantine Arabs, Armenians, Japanese, Chinese, Koreans, Greeks, Poles, Helvetians,
  Ukrainians and Russianssettled in Brazil, playing an important role in its culture as it started to shape a multicultural and multiethnic society.
  As consequence of three centuries of colonization by the Portuguese empire, the core of Brazilian culture is derived from the culture of Portugal. The numerous Portuguese inheritances include the language, cuisine items such as rice and beans and feijoada, the predominant religion and the colonial architectural styles. These aspects, however, were influenced by African and Indigenous American traditions, as well as those from other Western European countries.
context_section_description: Chichico Alkmim was a pioneer of photography in rural Minas Gerais in the early 20th century. Sebastião Salgado is an award-winning black and white photographer, known for Genesis and the documentary about his life, The Salt of the Earth. Vik Muniz photographs his art made of unconventional materials, such as peanut butter and jelly. Cássio Vasconcellos, Miguel Rio Branco, and Claudia Andujar are associated photojournalism, associated with aerial photography, social criticism, and anthropology, respectively.
caption: Cordel literature is a literary genre very popular in the Northeast of Brazil; according to the poet Carlos Drummond de Andrade, it is one of the purest manifestations of the inventive spirit, the sense of humour and the critical capacity of Brazilians from the interior and of the humblest backgrounds.[89]
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