A coleção fotográfica de Marcel Gautherot

Considering contemporary Anthropologys debate around photography, there is a\ud keen interest in the understanding of one of the most important open to public consultation\ud photographic collections on 20th Century Brazil, that of Frenchman Marcel Gautherot (1910-\ud 1996). The collection comprises around 25,000 photographs, purchased in 1999 by Instituto\ud Moreira Salles and kept in its fund in the city of Rio de Janeiro. The text comments on the\ud photographers work, linked to documentary projects under the patronage of institutions such as\ud the Musée de l´Homme in Paris, at the end of the 1930s, and both the National Historic and\ud Artistic Patrimony Service and the Brazilian Folklore Defence Campaign, in Brazil, between the\ud years of 1940 -1960. Such commitments and interests define important thematic groupings in\ud the production and organisation of his personal photographic archive. A discussion about criteria and technical procedures adopted by the photographer is attempted, detailing series\ud and visual narratives about Brazilian cultures density. With the photographs purchase by the\ud IMS, the oeuvres aesthetic quality, now as an institutional collection, is highlighted. The collections\ud manners of preservation and conservation, reproduction and circulation are redefined

A construção de representações nacionais: os desenhos de Percy Lau na Revista Brasileira de Geografia e outras "visões iconográficas" do Brasil moderno

The disciplinary emergence of the human sciences, specially Geography and\ud Ethnology, has evolved, from the beginning of the century, alongside the formation of\ud photographic collections and other figurative series inscribed in the construction of internationally\ud comparable national representations, anchored on regionalism. In this article, Percy Laus\ud drawings for the series Types and Aspects of Brazil, in a section of the Revista Brasileira de\ud Geografia magazine from 1939 onwards, are compared to other iconographic views of\ud modern Brazil in this case the photographs by Frenchmen Pierre Monbeig and Marcel\ud Gautherot. A visual culture in the process of generalization is highlighted in the association of\ud images in correlated series, at a moment when both the solo journey and the act of\ud photographing ad become increasingly common and accessible practices. The convergence\ud of representations by one same generation invites us to detect in the mise-en-serie the visual\ud conventions and the documentary style parameters of one and the other, so that a synthesis of\ud the imagistic thought of the era is arrived at. The images evidence geographically coincident\ud figurative itineraries, resulting in representations that, by extension and repetition, become\ud icons. The types and aspects of Percy Laus series and the texts accompanying it are inscribed\ud within the Vidalian geography, one of the intellectual matrices of Brazilian geography, in its\ud moment of institutionalization, during the Estado Novo period. If history, travel and image\ud lean on comparativeness, weaving persistencies, appropriations, transformations and hybridisms\ud of the iconographic in all levels, then it constitutes a vast research program open to\ud interdisciplinary dialogue