Poses, Possessions and Scenarios: The Photographs as Narratives of the Conquest of Europe
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The ethnographic narrative experiences articulating images and texts may trigger thesensitivities, knowledge and esthetical and cultural senses existing in the see-what-is-said/saywhat-is-seen relation. The photographs are among the possibilities of exploration of the universeof images. From the images taken from the daily lives of the transvestites, I argue that the posingis a signifying component capable of offering hints for the comprehension/ interpretation of someparticular aspects of that universe, not based only on the usual interpretations of the writtenwords. For this article, I gathered fragments of the transvestites’ migration to Italy, a projectsignificantly marked by the expectation of working and making a living, but which is also immersein glamour in a scenario where the images – photographs sent to the families and also madeavailable in the virtual platform – compose narratives of a success inscribed on the body, throughjewelry, cars, but also anchored in differentiated geographical spaces, capable of informingabout the “conquest of Europe”.Downloads
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