O que vemos nos afeta: corpos negros nas fotografias da Bahia no século XIX

Abstract

This thesis aims to launch an anthropological look at images of black bodies in photographic production in Bahia in the 19th century. The guiding proposal of this writing is, above all, an immersion in the search to understand how and in what way these collections elaborate an ethnographic narrative about the images of those bodies. The iconographic material that constitutes the source of analysis of this research is part of the collections of the Instituto Moreira Salles, the Instituto Histórico e Geográfico da Bahia, the Arquivo Público Municipal and the Museu Tempostal de Salvador. The latter has an exhibition of a collection of postcards that are fundamental elements of our investigative interest. We start here from the urgency of thinking about the impacts of recovering this memory on/for the black population.