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Manuel San Martin e Louis de Boccard : dois fotógrafos nos sertões do Novo Mundo
- Title
- Manuel San Martin e Louis de Boccard : dois fotógrafos nos sertões do Novo Mundo / André Heráclio do Rêgo.
- Author
- Rêgo, André Heráclio do
- Publication
- [Brasil?] : [André Heráclio do Rêgo], [2020]
- ©2020
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- Description
- 124 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps, portraits; 20 cm
- Summary
- The purpose of the present work is to discuss the trajectory and work of two traveling photographers of the 19th century. The first, Manuel San Martin, arrived at Rio Grande do Sul, Uruguay, in the mid-1870s. A Spaniard, probably a book illustrator in his native country, he had decided to try life in the New World. including to seek new markets for his photographic art, and worked in cities in Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina and Paraguay: Uruguaiana, Paissandu, Mercedes, Bela Vista, Paso de Los Libres, Corrientes and Asunción. He was thus another of the itinerant photographers of the 19th century who contributed to fixing the image and identity of the South American countries that traveled, with a predilection, like many other photography professionals, for outdoor images. He was, thus, one of the pioneers in the realization of ethnographic photos, in the reproduction of the images of indigenous people in their activities and in their natural surroundings. The second, Louis de Boccard, a Swiss native from the city of Freiburg, was a traveling photographer who was also a rancher, civil servant and taxidermist, as well as a passionate hunter. He concentrated his activities especially in the region of the La Plata basin, ideal land for travelers and explorers, much of which remained unknown in the first half of the 19th century. He lived at a time when the relations between photography and the scientific expeditions of exploration of the New World were intense, the result of the progressive replacement of the iconography painted and drawn by photography in the course of the 19th century., but above all because of the permanent tension, in the case of these traveling photographers and naturalists, between what one wished to see and what was actually seen.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- Introdução. Dois fotógrafos europeus nos sertões do Novo Mundo -- Manuel San Martin e a fotografia Sul-Americana no século XIX -- Louis de Boccard: um fotografo-viajante nos sertões do Novo Mundo.
- ISBN
- 9798621139711
- OCLC
- on1373885961
- 1373885961
- SCSB-14548140
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries