Retratos de família
Subtitle: leitura da fotografia histórica
By: Miriam Moreira Leite.
Series: Texto & arte ;; 9
Publisher: EDUSP; FAPESP
Published: 1993
Place of publication: São Paulo, SP, Brasil
Language: por
Number of pages: 192
Subjects: Family -- Brazil -- History; Family -- Brazil -- Pictorial works; Photography of families; Photography in historiography
Description: "By examining the work of a large number of photographers of immigrant families, the author documents the social uses and artistic dimensions of photography in Brazil from approximately 1890-1930. Supplemented with testimonies of travelers and artists such as Richard Burton and Jean Baptiste Debret, who describe everyday life in 19th-century Brazil. Also uses methods of visual anthropology to achieve a better understanding of historical photography. Includes bibliography and many reproductions"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-192).