Los dispositivos de la modernidad como problema: a Negra de Tarsila do Amaral y la fotografía del siglo XIX = The visual devices of modernity as a problem: a Negra of Tarsila do Amaral and the photography of the nineteenth century
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Visual devices, such as photography or
painting, established complex relations of
power between colonizing and colonized
subjects. As Edward Said demonstrated in
Orientalism, culture was a valuable ally in
this complex imperial system of colonial domination.
The present text aims to establish
connections between Brazilian photography
and the genealogy of A Negra (1923) by Tarsila
do Amaral. Starting from the conviction
that images are constructors of realities, we
aim to highlight some relationships and problems
that link the photography of the late
nineteenth century and the modernist painting
of the early twentieth