Fotografias de casamento: memórias compartilhadas a partir de acervos pessoais.

Abstract

This study intends to investigate, in wedding photographs from 1940 to 1969, the forms of a rite of passage presented, in these images, as poses, characters and scenarios. As for the temporal and spatial clippings, both are moving, but not inaccurate and they are conditioned to the relations web of the researched subjects. The temporal clipping is justified by the fact that, in the spanned the period, there was the habit of sharing photographs between friends and family. While the spatial clipping is delimited by the web itself created through the set and sequence of photographs. The theoretical reference presented discusses marriage as shared rite, in which the event photographs assume a collaborative format for the familiar memory, as well as everything that is present in the universe of these photographs: materials, photographers, photographic studios, scenarios in which were taken the photographs, poses of the photographed, objects that compose the scene and costume, highlighting the wedding dress. The wedding, in this period and society, is an event which gathers the involved in an affirmative rite that they wanted to share. The photograph accomplished the registration function as enabled the sharing was extended beyond its occurrence. The methodology is structured in case study: a method of research approach, that consists in the use of one or more qualitative methods of information gathering and do not follow a strict research line. It is characterized by describing an event or the case in a longitudinal form. The methods used are: literature review - on memory, photograph, family, woman and marriage - and analysis of photographs of the present collection. It is intended, finally, to verify how the image registration allows families to accumulate, for years, fragments able to constituting itself as a place of memory.