O turista aprendiz and the câmera as a social approach strategy

Abstract

de Andrade when referring to his book O turista aprendiz, with respect to its ethnographic and photographic representation in an attempt to understand the social problems during their stay in the Brazilian states of North and Northeast. The work O turista aprendiz was written between the years 1928 and 1930 in the form of diaries, notes and travel chronicles. At first, the São Paulo writer originally published these writings in the newspaper Diário Nacional, on the same dates. However, the official publication of the book came out after the texts were published in the paper edition organized by Tele Ancona Lopez, nearly fifty years later, in 1976. The bulge of ethnographic visits embedded in the work is the attention that the author dedicated to the public proletarian, in the search for the formulation of a national popular culture. The modernist writer assumes an intellectual posture committed to society, claiming to represent it in his writings and travel chronicles. As a theoretical ballast, we rely on the interpretation of some theorists who most helped understand the landscape of this investigative duality (Literature and Photography), namely: Lopez (1976); Sussekind (2008); Barthes (1981), among others, required for the contemplation of the proposed subject. We aim that the contributions of this paper can better illuminate the literature and photography duality in academic circles, stimulating new research and investigations