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During the course of the twentieth century, the practice of photography transformed events into scenes, experiences into memories, and captured human life with a single movement, the pressing of a button. What is this history made of images?
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David Levi Strauss, Between The Eyes. Essays On Photography And Politics (New York: Aperture, 2003).
Eric Hobsbawm, On History (London: New Press, 1998).
Jue de Paume, ed., Le statut de l’auteur dans l’image documentaire: signature du neutre, “Document 3” (Paris: Éditions du Jeu de Paume, 2006).
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For further reading on the subject see Daniel Aaro Reis, Marcelo Ridenti, and Rodrigo Patto Motta, O Golpe e a Ditadura Militar: 40 Anos Depois (1964–2004) (Bauru: EDUSC, 2004).
Milton Guran, Agudds: Os brasileiros do Benim (Rio de Janeiro: Nova Fronteira, 2000).
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Mauad, A.M. (2011). Committed Eye: Photographs, Oral Sources, and Historical Narrative. In: Freund, A., Thomson, A. (eds) Oral History and Photography. Palgarve Studies in Oral History. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230120099_13
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