Os discursos fotográficos de Canindé Soares: entre o turismo e a devoção (2004-2007)

Abstract

This thesis analyzes the discourse of the Catholic tourism events landscapes photographed by Canindé Soares in the State of Rio Grande do Norte. To conduct this research we selected the photographs at the database of official tourism organizations, the books and the site of Canindé Soares, did interviews and visited these landscapes. The choice of the object is justified because the photo register is inserted in the political scene of tourism development in Brazil. Moreover to understanding how the landscapes of Rio Grande do Norte are mediated by the National Tourism Policy to the institution of economic development in the Northeast of Brazil. Our goal was to understand the cultural aspects prioritized in these landscapes by photographic discourse. We read the photography as a critical image conception developed by Didi-huberman to understand these religious landscapes spaces in their characterization process as a show place. The methodology is a reflection about the present status of the image as a form of visual knowledge through the archeology. The relationship about photography, landscape and tourism points to what is defined in this thesis by a spectacularized framework, a category that we articulate by the reflections of George Didi-Huberman and Guy Debord. The spectacularized framework is a relationship between the discourses and the social relationships that draw the news landscaps but maintain olds images and turns then into a spectacle. The reflection about the image favors comprehension of the discourses that standardize landscapes and naturalizing the socio-spatial relations. We consider that the landscapes are naturalized by relations linked to the past icons referenciadores of the region and condition the visualities in the present. In this thesis we verified that the landscapes photographed, dynamited from the tourism policies are culturally engendered by a symptom of past visuals that spectacularized favor the maintenance of hegemonic discourses against the democratic interests. This situation prior sharing of pre-established stereotypes between image and discourse and keeps away of a social development based on the interpretive economy, able to valorize the local cultural and the social inclusion.