A fotografia nos arquivos: a produção de documentos fotográficos da Fundação Rockefeller durante o combate à febre amarela no Brasil

Abstract

This thesis proposes an analysis of the nature and characteristics of photography as part of institutional archives documents. From the questioning about the treatment given to photographies of historical archives, the work seeks to investigate the journey of the photographic document as object of theoretical and methodological questioning in the archival field, based on examination of some of its main manuals and methodological texts. Analyzing the traditional approach applied to photography, discusses the problematic of photographic document developed contemporaneously in the light of Diplomatics theoretical reference. The thesis adopts a case study, the photographic archive generated from activities of study, research and combat of yellow fever in Brazil, by the partnership between Rockefeller Foundation and the Brazilian National Service of Yellow Fever, during the Thirties and Forties. The present study proposes, on the one hand, to investigate the contextualization of the production of image archives as means of understanding the functional context responsible for the appearance of visual documents and, on the other hand, asseverates the archival nature of photographic documents, according to its peculiarities. To those who organize the archives, is assigned the task of investigating and making explicit both the context of the production and the bonds that links images to functions during their journey as document, in order to produce a transformation of the approach reserved to these materials, based on the sole valuation of it's informative contents in prejudice of it's value as evidence of actions for which have been created and used.

A fotografia e seus tentáculos: interpretações possíveis no universo dos arquivos

“…Our research intends to focus on photography in the informative-documentary perspective, examining the image as evidence of a record within an information system by studying the management of funds and photographic collections, and treatment of their iconic representation of content to generate secondary documentary representations , aimed at enabling the recovery of the documents and the information contained therein. From this perspective, we seek from now on the contribution of authors as Agustín Lacruz (2015); Benitez and Rodrigues (2006), Boadas I Raset;Casellas;Suquet (2001), Valle Gastaminza (1999) Lacerda (2008 and Lopez (2000), which will corroborate the theoretical construction of our research, with regard to the concepts of photography and characteristics. We seek in this brief presentation elencarmos the picture of the problem within the scope of the file and conceptualize the photographic documents within a state of affairs.…”

Fotografia Nos Arquivos: Estudo Sobre as Abordagens Teóricas Para Tratamento Arquivístico

“…A Arquivologia, a partir do seu conhecimento científico produzido por Manuais -conforme apontado por Fonseca (2005), Lacerda (2008), entre outros -, apresenta dificuldade de trabalhar com a fotografia como um documento de arquivo, isto é, produzida em decorrência de uma atividade, por reconhecê-la como uma linguagem própria e específica, diferente da textual.…”

“…Justifica-se que, em certos casos, sua separação dos demais documentos é realizada apenas pensando na preservação da informação visual e na conservação do suporte, conforme Lopez (2000) e Lacerda (2008).…”

A fotografia nos arquivos: produção e sentido de documentos visuais

“…* This article is a modified version of the second chapter ("A fotografia como documento de arquivo") of my doctoral dissertation (Lacerda, 2008).…”