O olho do rei : imagens de Pierre Verger

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2002

RESUMO

The theme of this dissertation is a study on the look of Pierre Verger in his photography and the objective pursued throughout his life: photography conceived through his interaction with specific contexts. The study is developed with the discussion of issues related to the imagerial representation, given it as a specific type of language, and issues related to the context, given it as a basic source for Verger s different possibilities oflook. The study starts with an analysis of Verger s life in France (where he was bom and lived until his thirties) particuIarly viewing his experience with the surrealist group and the sympathetic group of the Museum of Ethnography of Trocadero. It then reaches his life in Brazil s State ofBahia, where he lived for more than half of his life. These specific periods caused Verger to produce a vast number of books, articles, conferences and a photographic archive constituted of more than 62.000 negatives. Given the enormous amount of his complete work and the impossibility of a deeper analysis of it without a first approach as the present study, the focus of research here is the anthropologist s work published in Brazil only. The analysis of such particular data provides a clear view on how his look, at first diffused, turned to be more and more precise and focused on the preservation of the "African roots" for the black people of the "New World", specially to the ones who lived in Bahia. Verger s photographs have thus become icons and a proof that Bahia e a Africa, tudo é um ("Bahia and Africa are one thing only") and that this uniqueness has had direct influence in the constitution ofthe identity ofthis black community

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imagem fotografia surrealismo - frança negros - brasil negros - africa analise de trajetoria

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