Description
Book SynopsisProvides a richly illustrated examination of photography as a technology for documenting, creating, and understanding the processes of modernization in turn-of-the-century Brazil and the Amazon.
Trade Review“
Traces of the Unseen is an innovative study on the role of photography in revealing the violent underside of modernization in Brazil. Through a careful analysis of visual records about key events in the country’s history—the Canudos massacre, the Amazonian rubber boom and its aftermath—the author shows how photographers including Claude Lévi-Strauss, Roger Casement, and Mário de Andrade drew attention to forgotten communities, victims of Brazil’s stride toward progress. A must-read for those interested in the iconography of Brazilian modernity.” —Patricia Vieira, author of
States of Grace: Utopia in Brazilian CultureTable of Contents
- Introduction
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1 - Corpse: The Nation in a Decomposing Portrait
- Chapter 2 - Scars: Humanitarianism and the Colonial Point of View
- Chapter 3 - Debris: The Indigenous Past in an Ethnographer’s Dream
- Chapter 4 - Shadows: The Amazonian Worker and the Modernist Traveler
- Epilogue: Fire
- Bibliography
Notes
- Index
