studies on our relationship with images in photography and art.
From a historical perspective on photography—whether documentary or artistic—the text explores the rise of commercial portraits, daguerreotypes, and cartes de visite as a third category in which images take on the role of family heirlooms.
The text analyzes the invention of photography through its main protagonists and the way in which the project as a whole was part of the trend towards a disenchantment of the world and a redefinition of our relationship with nature.
The text analyzes how the desire for more drama in religious images and the emergence of Humanism in 13th century Europe converged, in such different ways, to an idea of naturalistic art as intended in the Renaissance.
Article with a brief history of the Lerebours et Secrétan house as an example of the transformations brought about by the bourgeois and scientific revolution in new forms of social ascension.
History of the development of the Daguerreotype from the Niépce/Daguerre collaboration to the French government’s purchase of the invention and its donation to the whole world.
Imagine a piano on which you can play any song like a virtuoso. Imagine a camera with which you can take any picture like a pro.
A reflection on our relationship with images from an lived experience in which an affective reference comes and goes between past and present, painting and photography.
Two children photographed fairies in 1917 in England. The famous spiritualist Arthur Conan Doyle, author of Sherlock Holmes, saw the beginning of a new era of communication with parallel worlds. In this article, Cottingley’s fairies are the pretext for a reflection on the authenticity of images.
Review from a visit made in 2017 to the permanent collection with focus on the “Discovery room”, that features the contribution of Niépce to the invention of photography.
Pinhole is a photographic technique that employs most of the times a home made camera in different degrees of improvisation and roughness. Matchboxes, shoeboxes and whatever boxes and containers are sort of starting point for those projects. The photographer bricoleur may also start from scratch by cutting cardboards and assembling his camera with adhesive tape. There are…
Popular portrait, at peace with fantasy It allows plenty of good insights the exhibition, Retrato Popular, do vernáculo ao espetáculo, (Popular Portrait, from vernacular to spectacle) on show at SESC Belenzinho – São Paulo, since May 6 and ending July 31, 2016. First by providing an encounter of popular art, that is made for straight consumption as it is,…
Alternative processes in photography When we think about alternative processes in photography, what comes to our minds, is a sort of brownish prints showing cloudy images, because they were produced the way it was in the infancy of photography. Many people associate this kind of roughness to constrains given by early phases of film and…