Injustice and exclusion revealed through photos (1898-1908)

The theme of injustice and exclusion represented through photographs proposes an analysis that was based on visual documents that served as propaganda of the government in the last decade of the nineteenth and early twentieth century. The photograph, which reveals, among other aspects of the city, people left out the long process of modernization, which made the day labor the ticket in the modern world. Therefore, shoe shiners, street vendors, porters, workers stole stowages not posing for composing scenarios that have shaped and composed the instruments of propaganda and dissemination of the "belle epoque" in the state capital. The visual language allows us to show how individuals were represented in urban settings, giving visibility to social types that were subtly caught by cameras at the service of government propaganda that aimed to promote a modern city, showing the intensity and speed with he wanted to achieve modernity, notice the record of another city that reminds us of the living spaces of different realities. The contribution of this study is anchored in the use of photography as the primary document analysis, understanding that photography is a witness who "speaks" of the past.