Na borda extrema do visível: discursos sobre identidade nacional nas fotorreportagens de Pierre Verger em O Cruzeiro (1946-1951)

Abstract

How do the photographic reports of folk festivals in the northeast of Brazil, made by Pierre Verger for the magazine O Cruzeiro (1946-1951), relate to the construction of the Brazilian nation in the "Vargas era"? To answer this problem question, Michel Foucault (1926-1984) points out one way: through the speeches. It is intended, in this work, to discuss what the contributions of Pierre Verger Photo Reports were, in order to build a national identity from 1946 to 1951. Those photos published in O Cruzeiro suggest an array of invisibility and visibility by articulating the discourse of the State, the magazine and the photographer himself ("author"), forming a network, without, however, making evident such operation or restrict it to what is inside the imaging picture. Nonetheless, it is about imprisoning such photographs in a pedagogical discourse proposed by the New State, because, at the same time, they show an effort to escape from the episteme of the time.