A fotografia nos arquivos: a produção de documentos fotográficos da Fundação Rockefeller durante o combate à febre amarela no Brasil / The photographic archive: the Rockefeller Foundation´photographic production during the period of combat of the yellow fever in Brazil

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2008

RESUMO

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 its informative contents in prejudice of its value as evidence of actions for which have been created and used.

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yellow fever rockefeller foundation saúde pública febre amarela fotografia photography public health fundação rockefeller photographic archive arquivo fotográfico

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