Editoria, fotografia e patrimônio: Marcel Gautherot na Revista do Patrimônio

Abstract

This dissertation investigates – guided by photographs by the French photographer Marcel Gautherot arranged throughout the first 40 volumes of the Revista do Patrimônio [Heritage Magazine] published by IPHAN – the use of the photographs as an instrument for the construction, renewal and instauration of visualities for Brazilian cultural heritage. In particular, three editions act as catalysts for this reflection: n.19 (1984), n.26 (1997) and n.27 (1998). When facing them, it was necessary to use terms such as analysis procedures, such as selection, exclusion, repetition and graphic design, in addition to the concepts present in the title: editorial, photograph and heritage. With their help, it was possible to orbit around the institutional and editorial motivations that created a common visual platform for our national heritage, going through the conditions of editorial production and the development of the fields of photography and heritage in Brazil. In addition to what the magazines themselves presented as finished objects, there is the seek to understand what precedes the final product – through documents and oral sources – given that what precedes the magazine-product is what effectively results in official visualities, their reception and establishment. The intersection between the editorial, photograph and heritage fields, therefore, is the metaphorical place where this new object, this re-assembly in the form of a dissertation, occurs.