Memórias tecidas de cor: o retrato pintado de Mateus Machado

Abstract

Mateus Machado is one of the few still active painted photography of a legion that not long ago was dedicated to the colorization of manual and manufacture of portraits painted portrait photography. About twenty years ago, prior to the effective field of digital technology to extend the image, edit, manipulate, modify or even colorize a photo was manual work done by skilled photography on canvas. This research aims to present some of the world about to disappear before the inexorable field of image scanning. Through their stories, and weave his portrait from him unravel the routine, the process of creating and techniques painted photography, who inherited and reinvented over half a century dedicated to this work. Through him, also focus on the route of the small professional outskirts of Bethlehem Inserted in the category of popular photography, his performance was primarily aimed at the social register and producing portraits, trying to cover their various production techniques, which made those who had some handicraft became painted photography. Many like Matthew specifics that were developed beyond mere simple retouching and colorization, going to the reconstitution of the full image, associating this procedure to restore a species, how effectively the painted portrait was sold and became known. Research sources were their reports, newspapers, painted portraits of his own and anonymous artists, as well as photographic record of their activities. This research expects that way have contributed to tell you a little, but not least important chapter in the historiography imagery Para.