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Articles - City, History and Culture • Rev. Bras. Estud. Urbanos Reg. 22 • 2020 • https://doi.org/10.22296/2317-1529.rbeur.202039en   copy

Poetics of archive as urban practices: three research gestures in the archive of the photo-documentation laboratory Sylvio de Vasconcellos1 1 This text is the result of a post-doctoral internship conducted in 2019, on the Postgraduate Program in Architecture and Urbanism at the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (NPGAU/UFMG), under the supervision of Professor Renata Marquez. The research project, entitled “Image, technique, everyday life: the archives of the Sylvio de Vasconcellos Photo-Documentation Laboratory”, is related to a research trajectory, along which I sought to explore the image, the archive and, more recently - due to a conversation with Professor Eduardo Costa, from the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism of the Universidade de São Paulo (FAU-USP) -, the book, within the field of history and the theory of architecture and urbanism. In the context of this trajectory, I would highlight two works in particular: the book Arquiteturas do olhar [The Architectures of Looking] (MORTIMER, 2017), the result of my doctoral thesis developed at NPGAU UFMG; and the book Entre imagem e escrita; Aracy Esteve Gomes e a cidade de Salvador [Between the image and the written word: Aracy Esteve Gomes and the city of Salvador] (published by Editora UFBA), organized with Professor Washington Drummond, at the Universidade do Estado da Bahia (Uneb), and which brought together other researchers from the field of architecture and urbanism interested in the discussion on image and archives, amongst whom were Eduardo Costa (USP), Breno Silva (Instituto Federal de Educação Ciência e Tecnologia de Minas Gerais - IFMG) and Renata Marquez (UFMG), in addition to doctoral students and those graduating from the Postgraduate Program in Architecture and Urbanism at the Universidade Federal da Bahia (PPGAU/UFBA). A short version of this article was presented as a conference at the 6th Seminário Ibero-americano Arquitetura e Documentação, Belo Horizonte, in November 2019. I would like thank Professor Leonardo Barci Castriota, coordinator of the Photo-Documentation Laboratory, for supporting the development of this work. Also, similarly important for the development of the research, from which this article is the result, were the disciplines “Photographic practice” and “Image etc: conversations on photography”, proposed at EA UFMG within the scope of the post-doctoral activities. I am grateful to Renata Marquez, Priscila Musa and Gabriela Pires for sharing the teaching activity within these disciplines, and to the students involved.

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Abstract

This article presents three research gestures (enlarging, dismantling and diverting) undertaken at the photographic archive of the Sylvio de Vasconcellos Photo-Documentation Laboratory, in order to highlight aspects that have established a field of debate regarding city, technique and everyday life. This was engaged upon with sources from the Photo-Documentation Service in the School of Architecture at the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, chiefly from the years 1954 to 1964. The research gestures, as poetics, experimented with ways of “making the archive speak”. They also provoked sounds when they brought into discussion the ordinary life captured through photography, and the implications of this technical mediation in the practice of the city and in constructing representations and discourses. By penetrating the devices of the patrimonial archive and focusing on the historical plot surrounding the vernacular, these gestures have glimpsed critical updates of what was discarded, and are also urban practices to the extent that they establish other ways with which to see the city (or un-see it, in the terms of Manoel de Barros and Rita Velloso).

Keywords:
Archive; Photography; City; Technique; Everyday Life; Dismantle; Divert

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