A COLECÇÃO FOTOGRÁFICA DE SOUSA GENTIL (1919-1920).UM PORTFOLIO DA ORDEM COLONIAL? / SOUSA GENTIL : PHOTOGRAPHS OF TIMOR (1919-1920).A PORTFOLIO OF COLONIAL RULE?蘇薩‧讓帝爾 (1919 - 1920) 照片集：殖民主義畫夾？
The article analyzes the photographic collection of Manuel Paulo de Sousa Gentil, governor of Portuguese Timor between 1919 and 1920, interrogating it as a possible “portfolio of the colonial order”. Based on the preserved core of 46 photographs (with typed captions), the author reconstructs, using...
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| Published in: | Review of Culture |
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Instituto Cultural de Macau
April 2006
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| Online Access: | https://www.icm.gov.mo/rc/viewer/pdfViewerParts/40018/3764 |
| Summary: | The article analyzes the photographic collection of Manuel Paulo de Sousa Gentil, governor of Portuguese Timor between 1919 and 1920, interrogating it as a possible “portfolio of the colonial order”. Based on the preserved core of 46 photographs (with typed captions), the author reconstructs, using an inventory of existing pieces and historical contextualization of the post-Manufahi wars period, how the circulation of Navy officers based in Macau and the republican program of “fomento” materialized in visual records. The methodology combines iconographic reading and documentary analysis of captions and provenances, articulating landscape photographs, traditional work, human types, games and amusements with images of exhibitions and agricultural experiments, as well as visits by the governor himself. It concludes that, although the original album probably gathered hundreds of images and later dispersed, the remaining sample allows identifying a narrative ordering that traverses ethnographies and developments, organizing the territory according to colonial categories. The collection thus tends to function as a pedagogical and commemorative device: it not only documents but frames people and practices within the horizon of a sovereignty that intends to present itself as “natural” and civilizing, culminating in scenes such as the “Catholic family”. |
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| ISSN: | 1682-1106 |