Arranjos fotográficos, arranjos familiares : representações sociais em retratos de família do Foto Bianchi (Ponta Grossa 1910 – 1940)

Abstract

The picture of family groups, as well as other groups, is one way to spread Imaging speeches and emphasized social relations that were frozen at the moment there portrayed. The practice of families of using the photographer to get group pictures remained for much of the 20th century in the city of Ponta Grossa. It is understood that the families that put a pose for the photographer constructed an idealized image of the group for the picture. Performed thus a representation, a social production, which consolidated the way the family would be recognized. Thus, studying the social representations of family portraits in the period 1915-1940, means building not only possible interpretations for the family, but to social groups in general, in that period. Based on the issues mentioned above, this dissertation aimed to reconstruct meanings and practices in social representations related to the act of photographing families, in Ponta Grossa, in the period cited. This work is divided into three chapters. The first deals with the theoretical concepts that give support to work. They are: family, social representations and social roles. In the second chapter sets up the city, the Bianchi´s family and the installation of their photo studio, where it gave rise to images of families. The final chapter is devoted to the analysis of iconography and iconology pictures, its constituent elements and symbols that pervade the representations of their characters.