Vestidos e descalços: uma arqueologia da visualidade na fotografia de escravos do Brasil do século XIX

Abstract

This article proposes at thinking the image from an experience of analysis with photography e in the search for building a visual history about a possible slave experience in nineteenth-century Brazil. It is a visual history of the social that looks at "minor" dimensions of the photographic image and expressed plots, power relations, processes of constitution of subjects and the invention of the past.