Retratos imigrantes
Subtitle: Imigrant portraits
By: João Kulcsár, organização
Contributors: São Paulo (Brazil : State). Museu da Imigração
Series: Memória e sociedade; Memória e sociedade (São Paulo, Brazil)
Publisher: SESI-SP editora
Published: 2015
Place of publication: São Paulo
Language: por
Number of pages: 178
ISBN-13: 9788582055496
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Exhibitions; Immigrants; Portraits; Photography; São Paulo (Brazil : State). Museu da Imigração; São Paulo (Brazil : State); Ellis Island Immigration Museum
Other titles: Imigrant portraits; Immigrant portraits; Retratos imigrantes.; Retratos imigrantes. English.
Description: This book is the result of years of research by John Kulcsár - art professor and curator of national and international exhibitions - who had privileged access to documents and images of Ellis Island, New York's port island symbol of immigration to the United States early in the century, and to the collection of the Museum of Immigration of São Paulo, where he conceived a project that relates the two collections, portraying the experience of immigration in the United States and Brazil. Immigrant portraits is a privileged representation of fundamental moments in the history of humanity, bringing the record of people and families who left everything behind to immigrate, seek alternatives and opportunities to erect new communities with more tolerant, peaceful and democratic perspectives.
Notes: From an exhibition at the Immigration Museum, state of São Paulo. Includes photographs from its collection and from the Ellis Island Immigration Museum.

In Portuguese and English.
Table of contents: title: Presentation; title: Retratos Imigrantes = Imigrant portraits; title: Textos = Texts; title: Apresentação; title: Os retratos imigrantes de Augustus Sherman; title: O acervo fotográfico do Museu da Imigração; title: Histórias do retrato na fotografia.