August 19th, World Photography Day
Photographs are a legitimate source of historical information. For historians from the beginning of the 20th century, some photographs are as valuable as the most precious archival documents.
Below is a selection of articles and blog posts on photography. Among the topics covered are: the history of photography, photographs in the history of medicine, archives for historians, The Rockefeller Foundation and Wellcome Collection.
Images from the history of medicine The U.S National Library of Medicine offers more than 60 thousand images from the history of medicine since 1200.
El início de la fotografía subacuática, 1890-1910 Alejandro Martínez, de la Universidad Nacional de La Plata, habla sobre la historia de la fotografía subacuática y su importancia en la ciencia.
Archivos digitales para historiadores: Investigar en tiempos de pandemia Con el fin de ayudar especialmente a los investigadores y estudiantes, este texto de Patricia Palma, investigadora en el Departamento de Ciencias Históricas y Geográficas de la Universidad de Tarapacá tiene como propósito poner a su alcance información sobre archivos digitales de bibliotecas en América Latina y el extranjero.
Research Stipend Program: Rockefeller Archive Center The research stipends are designed to support research by serious scholars in the collections located at the Rockefeller Archive Center. Many of the collections of the Rockefeller Archive Center are of great interest to Brazilian researchers.
Photography and railroads This article analyzes how railway engineering was connected to the production of photographs in nineteenth-century Brazil.
The Indian in Brazilian photography April 19, 2018, Indian Day in Brazil The Indian in Brazilian photography: incursions into image and medium, by Fernando de Tacca (Universidade Estadual de Campinas), explores contradictions and convergences between a medium (photography) and the image of the Brazilian Indian. HCSM vol.18 no.1 mar….
Imágenes de la salud Marcos Cueto presenta las fotografías que tomaron funcionarios y médicos de la Fundación Rockefeller en los viajes que realizaron a América Latina desde comienzos del siglo XX.
Wellcome Collection for Brazilian researchers See how to apply for a fellowship.
Brazilian historical pictures online A joint project of Biblioteca Nacional and Instituto Moreira Salles gathers together pictures of different aspects of Brazilian history.
