Haunting the archive: the National Library and the homoeroticism in the Alair Gomes Collection
Based on the understanding that the record and preservation of the history of subjects dissenting from gender and sexuality norms are an epistemic right, in this article I seek to point out some notes from a cartography that I made in the Alair Gomes Collection, in National Library of Brazil. Alair...
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| Format: | article |
| Status: | Published version |
| Publication Date: | 2022 |
| Country: | Brasil |
| Institution: | Universidade Federal de Uberlândia (UFU) |
| Repository: | ArtCultura (Online) |
| Language: | Portuguese |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.www.seer.ufu.br:article/66594 |
| Online Access: | https://seer.ufu.br/index.php/artcultura/article/view/66594 |
| Access Level: | Open access |
| Keyword: | arquivo Alair Gomes Biblioteca Nacional archive National Library |
| Summary: | Based on the understanding that the record and preservation of the history of subjects dissenting from gender and sexuality norms are an epistemic right, in this article I seek to point out some notes from a cartography that I made in the Alair Gomes Collection, in National Library of Brazil. Alair Gomes (1921-1992) is considered the precursor of homoeroticism in Brazilian photography. Created between the 1960s and 1980s, his work ranges from images of the young male body half naked on the beaches of Ipanema, a work for which he is best known, until photographs of sports, carnival and botany. In addition to the set of 16,000 photographs and 150,000 negatives, the Alair Gomes Collection is composed of manuscripts related to his academic, artistic and intimate diaries activities. This text is about asking how a public institution of memory, as the National Library, relate to this archive? |
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