Contemporary Black Photography and the Politics of Inscription and Insurgency in Brazil
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https://doi.org/10.30962/ecomps.3195Keywords:
Black Photography, Representation, Self-Inscription, Visual Insurgency, Visual CultureAbstract
This article investigates how contemporary Black Brazilian photography acts as a practice of self-inscription and insurgency against the racialized representation regime. Based on the mapping of visual artists carried out by the Black Eyes: Visibilities and Otherness in Contemporary Black Brazilian Photography research project, the aesthetic and political motivations that shape their work and modes of visibility are analyzed. The text identifies practices of symbolic production that build resistance and reconfigure visual narratives of Blackness, pointing to a panorama around new places of enunciation, strategies of identity affirmation and new spaces of black presence in visual culture.
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