Through a critical reflection on the system of production, consumption, and circulation of photographs of Black people in 19th-century Brazil, the lecture addresses the colonial and decolonial uses of portraiture in the past and present. To this end, some of the results of the researcher's doctoral thesis are presented. Monica Cardim "Transatlantic Portraits: The African Diaspora in the Photography of Alberto Henschel” (PGHEA-MAC/USP, 2023), with emphasis on the possible relationships of conviviality/inequality between the people involved in the making of portraits in the photographic studio of Alberto Henschel; in the circulation of the images through ethno-anthropological collections in Europe; and in the presence of the images in the collection of one of the portrayed individuals, the priest of the Candomblé religion. Juca Rosa.
The lecture aims to present a discussion on the role of agents (portraitists, subjects, collectors) involved in the production and circulation of photographic portraits of Black people, considering the unequal power relations and the violence implicit in the ethno-anthropological photographic practice of the 19th century. By bringing this reflection to the present day, the researcher associates the photographic studio with spaces of experimentation with the sacred in Afro-diasporic cosmology. In this way, she proposes photographic creation as a means of constructing counter-narratives about stories made invisible, based on the experience of those who have lived through the violence.
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Lecture | Transatlantic Portraits: The African Diaspora in the Photography of Alberto Henschel
April 23 Day
From 19 PM to 21 PM – free event
