Summary: | The article follows the paths of photographic practices in Brazil in the 19th and 20th centuries and the centrality of photography in the country’s visual culture. The text emphasizes photographic portraits and landscapes as the most valued images in the 19th century, whereas in the 20th century it focuses on the production of public photography, in particular press photography and photography from state agencies. Our aim is to offer an encyclopedic structure which consolidates, in each of its parts and sub-parts, historical information based on original research and up-to-date historiographical references concerning the debates about photography and society in contemporary Brazil.
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