Photography agencies and documentary photography in Rio Grande do Sul: a case study on the photo book Santa Soja (1979)

Authors

  • Charles Monteiro Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul e do Laboratório de Pesquisa em História da Imagem e do Som. Avenida Ipiranga, 6681, prédio 9, sala 205. 90.619-900 Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil. https://orcid.org/0000- 0003-1498-8155
  • Carolina Martins Etcheverry Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul e do Laboratório de Pesquisa em História da Imagem e do Som. Avenida Ipiranga, 6681, prédio 9, sala 205. 90.619-900 Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil. https://orcid.org/0000- 0001-5429-4516

Abstract

This article aims to problematize the photographs of the photo book titled SantaSoja, edited by Jacqueline Joner and Luiz Abreu and published in 1979, with photographsby Luiz Abreu, Eneida Serrano, Jacqueline Joner and Genaro Joner. The photographsfocus on the changes that the introduction of soybeans, a new commercial, export-orientedagricultural crop, was causing in the countryside. The small family farming was beingput to test by the change in the way of planting and selling, also causing changes in workrelations and daily life. The book is the result of previous work carried out between 1976and 1979, when the photographers prepared materialfor the Cooperativa de Jornalistas dePorto Alegre (1973-83), which edited the magazine Agricultura & Cooperativismo. Theytoured the region for about three years photographing families, homes and work in thefields. In 1979, Jaqueline Joner, Eneida Serrano, Genaro Joner and Luiz Abreu createdthe Ponto de Vista Agency, which edited in that year two books from the images in theirphotographic archives: Santa Soja (1979) and Ponto de Vista (1979).

Author Biographies

Charles Monteiro, Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul e do Laboratório de Pesquisa em História da Imagem e do Som. Avenida Ipiranga, 6681, prédio 9, sala 205. 90.619-900 Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil. https://orcid.org/0000- 0003-1498-8155

Universidade Católica do Rio Grandedo Sul e do Laboratório de Pesquisa emHistória da Imagem e do Som. AvenidaIpiranga, 6681, prédio 9, sala 205.90.619-900 Porto Alegre, Rio Grandedo Sul, Brasil. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1498-8155

Carolina Martins Etcheverry, Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul e do Laboratório de Pesquisa em História da Imagem e do Som. Avenida Ipiranga, 6681, prédio 9, sala 205. 90.619-900 Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil. https://orcid.org/0000- 0001-5429-4516

Universidade Católica do Rio Grandedo Sul e do Laboratório de Pesquisa emHistória da Imagem e do Som. AvenidaIpiranga, 6681, prédio 9, sala 205.90.619-900 Porto Alegre, Rio Grandedo Sul, Brasil. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5429-4516

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Published

2019-08-15

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Vol. 23 No. 3 (2019): September/December

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