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The object of the project PRINTED PHOTOGRAPHY: IMAGE AND PROPAGANDA IN PORTUGAL, 1934-1974 is to identify, analyze and discuss the photographic image printed as propaganda instruments by the Portuguese «New State» from 1934 to end of the regime in April 1974. 1934 is indeed the first moment when printed photography was put to the service of the dictatorship by the National Secretariat for Propaganda (SPN) in the exhibition produced for the 1st Congress of the regime’s single party, «National Union», and the 1st Colonial Exhibition in Oporto.
Photography as an object of study arrived late in Portugal. António Sena’s 1998 book, History of Photographic Image in Portugal, 1839-1997, remains the main reference given its considerable body of images and texts about more than 150 years of photography in Portugal. Lately, several new theoretical studies have enriched the history of photography in the country, such as Emília Tavares (2009), Susana Martins (2011) and António Barrocas (2014) among others.
The concept of "printed photography" that guides our project concerns the photographic images that we will select from an extensive archival of publications composed of magazines and propaganda albums with different objectives and creative forms which may regard commemorations, voyages, landscapes and monuments as well as ethnographic explorations. Printed photography in Portugal will be conceived as a place of intersection between modernity and the requirements of politics (Jordana Mendelson, 2007: 9-17).
The object of the project PRINTED PHOTOGRAPHY: IMAGE AND PROPAGANDA IN PORTUGAL, 1934-1974 is to identify, analyze and discuss the photographic image printed as propaganda instruments by the Portuguese «New State» from 1934 to end of the regime in April 1974. 1934 is indeed the first moment when printed photography was put to the service of the dictatorship by the National Secretariat for Propaganda (SPN) in the exhibition produced for the 1st Congress of the regime’s single party, «National Union», and the 1st Colonial Exhibition in Oporto.
Photography as an object of study arrived late in Portugal. António Sena’s 1998 book, History of Photographic Image in Portugal, 1839-1997, remains the main reference given its considerable body of images and texts about more than 150 years of photography in Portugal. Lately, several new theoretical studies have enriched the history of photography in the country, such as Emília Tavares (2009), Susana Martins (2011) and António Barrocas (2014) among others.
The concept of "printed photography" that guides our project concerns the photographic images that we will select from an extensive archival of publications composed of magazines and propaganda albums with different objectives and creative forms which may regard commemorations, voyages, landscapes and monuments as well as ethnographic explorations. Printed photography in Portugal will be conceived as a place of intersection between modernity and the requirements of politics (Jordana Mendelson, 2007: 9-17).
Project Reference: PTDC/CPC-HAT/4533/2014
Funding Institution: FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Startind Date: May 2016
Ending Date: December 2018
Funding Institution: FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Startind Date: May 2016
Ending Date: December 2018