Cidades fotografadas: Rio de Janeiro e Buenos Aires sob as lentes de Augusto Malta e Harry Olds, 1900-1936

This paper aims to understand the photographs produced by Augusto Malta (1864-1957) and Harry Grant Olds (1869-1943) during the urban renewal of Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires, respectively, during the first three decades of the twentieth century. It is observed that the subjects portrayed by the t...

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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:cad100db03134934b4622748c181267f2021-12-02T10:38:57ZCidades fotografadas: Rio de Janeiro e Buenos Aires sob as lentes de Augusto Malta e Harry Olds, 1900-19361626-025210.4000/nuevomundo.50103https://doaj.org/article/cad100db03134934b4622748c181267f2009-01-01T00:00:00Zhttp://journals.openedition.org/nuevomundo/50103https://doaj.org/toc/1626-0252This paper aims to understand the photographs produced by Augusto Malta (1864-1957) and Harry Grant Olds (1869-1943) during the urban renewal of Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires, respectively, during the first three decades of the twentieth century. It is observed that the subjects portrayed by the two photographers are related to the ideas of back-wardness, modernization, progress and exoticism, characteristic of Latin American cities in the process of metropolianization. Their photographs show both barbarism (slums, conventillos and landfills), as the images of civilization (boulevards, parks and theatres). Thus, we analyze how their photographs participated in the process of eliminating the old and building the new, while both recorded what stood on what is destroyed in the urban scene, building a great album of images intended to document the history of those cities.Viviane da Silva AraujoCentre de Recherches sur les Mondes AméricainsarticleArgentinaBuenos AiresmodernizationphotographyprogressRio de JaneiroAnthropologyGN1-890Latin America. Spanish AmericaF1201-3799ENFRPTNuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos (2009)
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language EN
FR
PT
topic Argentina
Buenos Aires
modernization
photography
progress
Rio de Janeiro
Anthropology
GN1-890
Latin America. Spanish America
F1201-3799
spellingShingle Argentina
Buenos Aires
modernization
photography
progress
Rio de Janeiro
Anthropology
GN1-890
Latin America. Spanish America
F1201-3799
Viviane da Silva Araujo
Cidades fotografadas: Rio de Janeiro e Buenos Aires sob as lentes de Augusto Malta e Harry Olds, 1900-1936
description This paper aims to understand the photographs produced by Augusto Malta (1864-1957) and Harry Grant Olds (1869-1943) during the urban renewal of Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires, respectively, during the first three decades of the twentieth century. It is observed that the subjects portrayed by the two photographers are related to the ideas of back-wardness, modernization, progress and exoticism, characteristic of Latin American cities in the process of metropolianization. Their photographs show both barbarism (slums, conventillos and landfills), as the images of civilization (boulevards, parks and theatres). Thus, we analyze how their photographs participated in the process of eliminating the old and building the new, while both recorded what stood on what is destroyed in the urban scene, building a great album of images intended to document the history of those cities.
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author Viviane da Silva Araujo
author_facet Viviane da Silva Araujo
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title Cidades fotografadas: Rio de Janeiro e Buenos Aires sob as lentes de Augusto Malta e Harry Olds, 1900-1936
title_short Cidades fotografadas: Rio de Janeiro e Buenos Aires sob as lentes de Augusto Malta e Harry Olds, 1900-1936
title_full Cidades fotografadas: Rio de Janeiro e Buenos Aires sob as lentes de Augusto Malta e Harry Olds, 1900-1936
title_fullStr Cidades fotografadas: Rio de Janeiro e Buenos Aires sob as lentes de Augusto Malta e Harry Olds, 1900-1936
title_full_unstemmed Cidades fotografadas: Rio de Janeiro e Buenos Aires sob as lentes de Augusto Malta e Harry Olds, 1900-1936
title_sort cidades fotografadas: rio de janeiro e buenos aires sob as lentes de augusto malta e harry olds, 1900-1936
publisher Centre de Recherches sur les Mondes Américains
publishDate 2009
url https://doaj.org/article/cad100db03134934b4622748c181267f
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