Description
Book SynopsisInvestigates the Brazilian image world in the first four decades of the twentieth century.
Trade ReviewOver one hundred illustrations, the artful deployment of which the design team at Manchester University Press deserves credit, adorn the undertaking from beginning to end, lending the narrative (most appropriately) a rich, visual texture.
Though her sweep is vast, there is commendable balance between the big picture and attention to detail, with six informative chapters "organized around a sequence of connected case studies"
W. George Lovell, Dept. Geography, Queens University Canada, 'Society and Space', 02/01/2015
'Martins leads her readers through a fine web of documentary imagery and her book identifies new constellations of visual documents, expanding a Latin American historiography...Both the series of images and the strategies of interpretation in Photography and Documentary Film in the Making of Modern Brazil ought to be of real interest to geographers (both cultural and historical), art historians and anthropologists, as well, of course, as scholars in Latin American studies.'
Louise Purbrick, University of Brighton, UK, Journal of Historical Geography 52 (2016)
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Table of Contents1. Introduction
2. Silvino Santos: documenting modern Brazil
3. Filming terra incognita: the exploration of the Amazon
4. Picturing a moral geography: Kenneth Grubb in Brazil
5. Coffee, modernity and the Brazilian image world
6. Mário de Andrade: photographic experiment and living heritage
7. Framing the Bororo: Claude Lévi-Strauss and Aloha Baker in Mato Grosso
8. Epilogue: from the Great Coffee Nation to the Obra Getuliana
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