The representation about the tragedy in Mariana buried photographs and surviving images

Authors

  • Marcela Vasco PhD student in Social Anthropology, University of Campinas, São Paulo, Brasil.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2525-3123.gis.2018.142387

Keywords:

Mariana, Disaster, Photography, Image, Montage

Abstract

In this essay, I present an investigation process based on images produced about the tragedy of the Fundão tailings dam rupture, at the Alegria complex of the mining company Samarco (controlled by Vale and BHP Billiton), in Bento Rodrigues, city of Mariana (MG). Through the journalistic and artistic photographs that tried to reveal what had happened, I have sought to analyze the notion of disaster and the representation used to classify and portray this tragedy. Furthermore, as of questions arising from this brief analysis, I have proposed a work of deformation, montage, and restitution of those images, as a way of playing with metaphors from the remaining leftovers.

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Author Biography

  • Marcela Vasco, PhD student in Social Anthropology, University of Campinas, São Paulo, Brasil.

    Ph.D. student in Social Sciences at the State University of Campinas. Member of the Anthropological Laboratory for Word and Image (LA’GRIMA) and of the Group of Visual and Urban Research (VISURB).

     

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Published

2018-07-23

Issue

Vol. 3 No. 1 (2018)

Section

Articles

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How to Cite

Vasco, Marcela. 2018. “The Representation about the Tragedy in Mariana Buried Photographs and Surviving Images”. GIS - Gesture, Image and Sound - Anthropology Journal 3 (1). https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2525-3123.gis.2018.142387.