Photography and Documentary Film in the Making of Modern Brazil

Luciana Martins is Senior Lecturer in Luso-Brazilian Studies at Birkbeck, University of London

• 1. Introduction2. Silvino Santos: documenting modern Brazil3. Filming terra incognita: the exploration of the Amazon4. Picturing a moral geography: Kenneth Grubb in Brazil5. Coffee, modernity and the Brazilian image world6. Mário de Andrade: photographic experiment and living heritage7. Framing the Bororo: Claude Lévi-Strauss and Aloha Baker in Mato Grosso8. Epilogue: from the Great Coffee Nation to the Obra GetulianaIndex

Over one hundred illustrations, the artful deployment of which the design team at Manchester University Press deserves credit, adorn the undertaking from beginning to end, lending the narrative (most appropriately) a rich, visual texture.Though her sweep is vast, there is commendable balance between the big picture and attention to detail, with six informative chapters "organized around a sequence of connected case studies"W. George Lovell, Dept. Geography, Queens University Canada, 'Society and Space', 02/01/2015'Martins leads her readers through a fine web of documentary imagery and her book identifies new constellations of visual documents, expanding a Latin American historiography...Both the series of images and the strategies of interpretation in Photography and Documentary Film in the Making of Modern Brazil ought to be of real interest to geographers (both cultural and historical), art historians and anthropologists, as well, of course, as scholars in Latin American studies.'Louise Purbrick, University of Brighton, UK, Journal of Historical Geography 52 (2016)