The materialization of human vulnerability through imagesITY THROUGH IMAGES

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5902/1679849X74001

Keywords:

Photography, Photojournalism, Social Complaint, Brazilian Holocaust, Anti-asylum Movement

Abstract

This article aims to analyze how the production and dissemination of images that expose violence and human degradation can be used as a social denunciation and contribute to transforming the reality of socially excluded people. The research is based on the book-report The Brazilian Holocaust, published in 2015, by the journalist Daniela Arbex, which presents an investigative report on the psychiatric hospital in the city of Barbacena, state of Minas Gerais, known as The Colônia, that, after almost eighty years using inhuman treatments, it underwent a reform in psychiatry due to an anti-asylum movement encouraged through the exposure of images in the media. The rescue of the psychiatric hospital's history is in dialogue with theories about the concept and ethical practice of photography, such as: Cartier-Bresson, and the decisive moment; Sontag (2003), and photography as a denunciation; Kossoy (2001), and the eternalization of time through photography.

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Author Biographies

Kassandra Naely Rodrigues dos Santos, Universidade Federal de Pelotas

PhD student in Letters at the Federal University of Pelotas (UFPel), in the line of research: Literature, culture and translation; Master's degree in Letters from the Federal University of Pelotas (UFPel); Degree in Letters - Portuguese and Portuguese Language Literatures from the Federal University of Pampa (UNIPAMPA - 2017); Student on the UAB/CAPES Arts Specialization Course. (UFPel); Student on the Degree Course in Letters - Additional Languages: English and Spanish and Respective Literatures (UNIPAMPA).

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Milena Hoffmann Kunrath , Universidade Federal de Pelotas

She has a degree in Literature - Portuguese and German, and a bachelor's degree in Visual Arts from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS). She holds a Master's degree in Comparative Literature from UFRGS and a PhD in Literary Theory from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS). She did a sandwich doctoral internship at the University of Konstanz (2014), under the guidance of Prof. Dr. Aleida Assmann, with a CAPES grant. She has been a full professor of German at the Federal University of Pelotas (UFPel) since February 2017. She is the coordinator of the German language program of Idiomas Sem Fronteiras at UFPel and of the Portuguese-German course at UFPel. She has experience in the areas of Literature, German Literature and Literature Theory, with an emphasis on memory and history.

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Published

2024-09-03

How to Cite

Santos, K. N. R. dos, & Kunrath , M. H. (2024). The materialization of human vulnerability through imagesITY THROUGH IMAGES. Literatura E Autoritarismo, (43), e74001. https://doi.org/10.5902/1679849X74001