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OverviewA 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 Photography at the turn of the twentieth century was not only a product of modernity but also an increasingly available medium to chronicle the processes of modernization. Traces of the Unseen: Photography, Violence, and Modernization in Early Twentieth-Century Latin America situates photography’s role in documenting the destruction wrought by infrastructure development and extractive capitalist expansion in the Amazon and outside the Brazilian metropole. Combining formal analysis of individual photographs with their inclusion in larger multimedia assemblages, Carolina SÁ Carvalho explores how this visual evidence of violence was framed, captioned, cropped, and circulated. As she explains, this photographic creation and circulation generated a pedagogy of the gaze with which increasingly connected urban audiences were taught what and how to see: viewers learned to interpret the traces of violence captured in these images within the larger context of modernization. Traces of the Unseen draws on works by Flavio de Barros, Euclides da Cunha, Roger Casement, Claude LÉvi-Strauss, and Mario de Andrade to situate an unruly photographic body at the center of modernity, in all its disputed meanings. Moreover, SÁ Carvalho locates historically specific practices of seeing within the geopolitical peripheries of capitalism. What emerges is a consideration of photography as a technology through which modern aspirations, moral inclinations, imagined futures, and lost pasts were represented, critiqued, and mourned. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Carolina Sá CarvalhoPublisher: Northwestern University Press Imprint: Northwestern University Press Weight: 0.363kg ISBN: 9780810145429ISBN 10: 0810145421 Pages: 328 Publication Date: 28 February 2023 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsIntroduction 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 IndexReviewsTraces 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 Levi-Strauss, Roger Casement, and Mario de Andrade drew attention to forgotten communities, victims of Brazil's stride towards progress. A must-read for those interested in the iconography of Brazilian modernity. --Patricia Vieira, author of States of Grace: Utopia in Brazilian Culture """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."" --Patrícia Vieira, author of States of Grace: Utopia in Brazilian Culture" Author InformationCAROLINA SÁ CARVALHO is an assistant professor of Hispanic and Lusophone literatures at the University of Toronto. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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