Photography And Documentary Film In The Making Of Modern Brazil

the long version

'Photography and Documentary Film in the Making of Modern Brazil' provides a major contribution to the field of visual culture through a study of still and moving images of Brazil in the first four decades of the 20th century, when the camera played a key role in making Brazilian peoples and places visible to a variety of audiences. The book explores what is distinctive about the visual representation of Brazil in an era of modernisation, also attending to the significance of the different technical properties of film and photography for the writing of new histories of visual technologies.