Cidade, indústria e modernidade na representação fotográfica de Hans Günter Flieg (1940-1960)

Resumo

This dissertation is about the photographic representation of the city and industry by the German photographer naturalized Brazilian Hans Günter Flieg between the years 1940 and 1960. The period between the end of World War II and the dictatorship of the Estado Novo and the beginning of the military dictatorship marks a democratic interval in Brazilian history, in which the expansion and modernization of the industrial park was encouraged by the State, initially by Getúlio Vargas, with the implementation of heavy industries, and later by Juscelino Kubitschek, who, with the Plano de Metas [Plan of Goals], created the mechanisms for the installation of multinationals in the country. Concentrated mostly in the Southeast region, where internal migration converged, the industrial capital provided the intense process of metropolization of the city of São Paulo, an ubiquitous scenario in Flieg's photography. Hired by important industries at the time, the photographer created photo-reportages in which he documented the installations, work and industrial production. At the same time, his performance in advertising led him to register the growth of São Paulo's capital, marked by verticalization of buildings, the modernization of the consumer goods market, with the insertion of countless industrialized products aimed at the middle class, the increase of the cultural and artistic circuit and changes in domestic habits and urban sociability. In this dissertation, whose theoretical basis is visual culture and studies of photography and history, Flieg's photographic practice is analyzed, as well as the formal procedures that bring his representation closer to the artistic field and have as reference modern European and North American photography. We also address the relevance of his work for the study of contemporary material culture and for the visual documentation of Brazilian industrialization in the mid-20th century. The research investigates the contents of Flieg's urban and industrial photographs, the contexts of their production, the social circulation at the time of their creation and the different circuits that have appropriated them over time.

Ficha do documento

Tipo

Dissertação

Ano

2020

Instituição

Fundação Getulio Vargas

Fonte

Repositório da FGV

Idioma

Português

Acesso

Acesso aberto

Identificador

oai:repositorio.fgv.br:10438/29547

Temas

Planejamento UrbanoDesenvolvimento Econômico

Palavras-chave

FotografiaHistóriaModernidadeRepresentaçãoCultura visualPhotographyHistoryModernityRepresentationVisual cultureFlieg, Hans Günter, 1923-Fotografia - São Paulo (Estado) - História - 1940-1960Fotografia documentária - São Paulo (Estado)