O retrato e o tempo
Subtitle: Coleção Francisco Rodrigues, 1840-1920
By: organização, Rita de Cássia Barbosa de Araújo, Teresa Alexandrina Motta
Publisher: Fundação Joaquim Nabuco, Massangana
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Recife, PE
Language: por; eng
ISBN-13: 9788570196385
Subjects: Photograph collections; Portrait photography; Private collections; Fundação Joaquim Nabuco
Description: Fine edited book comprising a selection of 500 photographic portraits from the collection of the Foundation Joaquim Nabuco. These period studio portraits reveal the faces and details of clothes, expressions and contexts of a crucial period of Brazilian history, the end of slavery and the Empire and the beginning of the Republic. Hundreds of families of the "Ciclo Açucareiro" (Sugar Cycle) to women who challenged their time, such as author and feminist Hedwig de Sá Pereira (page 55, v. 1), and the photo of Fatima Miris, a transformist artist who played at the theatre in the Park, at the end of the Decade of 1910 (page 90, v.1).
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

Texts in Portuguese and English.
Table of contents: title: [1] O retrato e o tempo : Coleção Francisco Rodrigues, 1840-1920 / organização, Rita de Cássia Barbosa de Araújo, Teresa Alexandrina Motta; title: [2] Portrait and time : Francisco Rodrigues Collection, 1840-1920 / organized by, Rita de Cássia Barbosa de Araújo, Teresa Alexandrina Motta.