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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Autor: Pereira, Bruno
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade Federal de Uberlândia (UFU)
Repositorio:ArtCultura (Online)
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.www.seer.ufu.br:article/66594
Acceso en línea:https://seer.ufu.br/index.php/artcultura/article/view/66594
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:arquivo
Alair Gomes
Biblioteca Nacional
archive
National Library
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Sumario: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?