Photography has been increasingly investigated by Brazilian historians, thus bringing about diverse methodological approaches for the analysis of such visual images. A fundamental component in the studies of this nature is research on photography's social circuit. Within this scope, there is a body of information that is related to the production, circulation and use of photography understood as a visual, creative and disseminating image for certain social imaginaries, and as an artifact that had a place in people's lives in different contexts. In this article, the author investigates photography's social circuit in the city of Porto Alegre in the 1920's and 1930's, in an attempt to find clues of the presence of this modern invention in the life of Porto Alegre citizens and of the urban vistas that it disseminated.
Photography; City; Imaginary; Image
