Camadas do tempo: representações geográficas nas fotografias e cartões postais da cidade Goiânia (1933 – 1970)

Abstract

The opportunity of a academic thinking about the iconographic and geo-historical studies, animates the present study, whose aim is to reflect on the urban space of Goiânia, planned and built to be the capital of Goiás, from the photographs that portrayed their process construction and consolidation between 1930 to 1970. The survey sought to understand how the landscape of Goiânia was designed by photographers and how to produce a visual reading of the city, these professionals have built a valuable collection about the actual construction of this urban space. On the other hand, the uniqueness of the photographs is based not only on the imaging quality, but also the contradictory dialogue established with the official discourse that, in turn, sought to identify Goiânia as a symbol of progress and modernity of the Goiás state. In which deals with the documentation researched, the main corpus consisted of photographs, official documents contemporaneous with the construction of the city, and also architectural and urbanistic projects. With regard to the photographs, those produced by the pioneer professionals, who migrated to Goiânia, have been privileged, constituting themselves as an important and grandiloquent documentary collection. From the theoretical point of view, the research sought to interweave discussions, themes and concepts pertinent to two complementary sciences: Geography and History. The Urban Geography, subfield of Geography, supported the theoretical and empirical analyzes woven throughout our reflections on the urban space of Goiânia. As a result, research has shown that the photographic production Goiania - its first decades until the early metropolization process - linked to the demonstration of capitalist modernity, with a view to consolidating the context of national identity and integration territorial, ideological substrates of the nation project implemented between 1930 and 1950.