Neoliberalismo e o novo fotojornalismo no Brasil dos anos 1990

Abstract

The main question when constructing this Thesis is to understand that the photography of Carlos Carvalho and Sebastião Salgado contributed to social denunciations with a look full of the past, in addition to realizing their similarities in trajectories and records with other photographers who worked in Brazil in the 1980s and 1990s. Their actions dialogue with a network of other professionals who also saw inequalities with the same magnifying glass: in black-and-white photography, in a way close to their subjects, in the exchange of constant glances and a photography that seeks to enter the subjective field of those who watch it, to reach artistic legitimization and authorities that can make practical changes in the lives of people in vulnerable situations recorded by photographers. Such authorities, however, are among the main promoters of the violence recorded and documented by these photographers, closing a loop of social denunciation and the conjuration of innocence by neoliberal institutions, by directly or indirectly supporting these photographic works and by exempting themselves from the responsibility of problems that neoliberalism generated in post-1990 Brazil. Thus, closing a cycle of perpetuation of problems in our neoliberal society, with the continuity of contemporary slavery, devastation of the environment, promotion of social inequalities, among other problems. Understanding the functioning of this movement between photographic activity in Brazil in the 1990s in contact with this neoliberal system is the central problem of this work