Signos em Tons de Cinza: A Fotografia e as Transformações Urbanas na Capital Paulista

Resumo (EN)

The city of São Paulo has passed for several transformations throughout its history. Some of these transformations were registered in photographs that allow analyzing how the environment has affected the imaginary of some photographers in different historical periods, contributing to the reading development of urban images and to the register of these in particular. As the photography reflects not only the reconstitu­tion of the past, but also the intention of resignification of urban space by the author of the image, were chosen three representative photographers of their times who re­gistered, through their photographs, the urban transformations that have occurred in São Paulo city over time. This research will seek to understand - in interpreting the images of Militão Augusto de Azevedo, Guilherme Gaensly and Cristiano Mascaro -the relationship between photographic images of the city in transformation and the messages left by the photographers. lt will search find out if the urban transforma­tions are responsible for the creation of a photographic language and how this inter­feres with the formation of an imaginary that feeds on the images taken earlier to continue register the different views of the same city. This research will study the communicative relationship of photography, as a media, in transmission of iconic messages from one period to another, for, at the end, to check the photography act­ing as a mediator of internal transformations of the photographers (imaginary) and external (urban transformations).