Paisagens urbanas: fotografia e modernidade na cidade de Belém (1846-1908)

Abstract

Paisagens Urbanas: fotografia e modernidade na cidade de Belém (1846-1908) considers a quarrel on the photographic documents that served of instruments of propaganda of the governing in the last decade of century XIX and in the beginning of century XX. The documentary of this study show the form as the individuals if they had made to represent in the urban scenes, giving visibility to the social types that had been photographed subtle by the cameras the service of the propaganda of the government. Objective to divulge a city modern, disclosing the intensity and the rapidity with that it desired to reach modernity, at the same time where a modern city brings the light in accordance with the models proceeding from the Europe, the register of a other city is perceived that in it sends the spaces of connivance of different realities. The photographic image, as well as other visual sources and objects, consists in important instruments of historical inquiry to identify to new objects and new problems. The contribution of this study if anchors in the use of the photograph as main document of analysis for historiography production, understanding that the photograph represents a certification that "speaks" of the past in the intensity that the historian questions it. This study it search to analyze the relation between photograph and city from the visual narrative of the albums and reports of Belém that had been produced in the period of 1898 the 1908. The interpretation of the albums, while narrative that visualizes a city modern, I consisted in one of the methodological strategies for boarding of the use of the photograph as document for the historian, considering that in this type of documentation it can show given dispersed or exactly silenced for other sources of research.