Uma rua chamada Gruppelli : memórias reveladas pela fotografia

Abstract

This study is an investigation about the reconstitution of Gruppelli’s place memory, located at Municipal Colony, 7th District of Pelotas, with emphasis on Gruppelli’s ancient family estates, origin of the colonial core, and institutions for collective use, covered by the photography of the decade from 1920 until today. The reconstruction of production processes and nature of these environments, through visual documents, allowed the identification of maintenance and changes produced in this period by different generations. Wherein deal with actions, which were deposited material in the landscape throughout the twentieth century, these societies appear in photographic records as indicators of a physical existence situated in time and place. They are visual documents, preserved as proof sketches of individuals and institutions that provide references space-temporal and allow establishing links among generations. This is a search of historical character, a dialogue between temporalities, in which the past is approached from the present, allowing the identification of historical time and its socio-economic processes and cultural correlates. The inseparable combination - place and photography of the place - exposing an individualized reality, allowed that place trajectory could be glimpsed in different images sequences created over time by amateur and professional photographers. Images that, when scanned, turned out more than the passage of time, but the proper expression of place in the colonial context.