Unhiding hidden urban madness: the asylum photographs of Claudio Edinger

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15448/1984-4301.2019.3.35337

Palavras-chave:

Edinger, Claudio, mental asylums in photography, Jaqueri mental hospital (São Paulo).

Resumo

Mental illness is an inescapable component of urban life. The Brazilain photographer Claudio Edinger devotes one of his major photobooks to a study of the São Paulo mental asylum, Jaqueri. This essay analyses the strategies of his analytical scrutiny of mental patients, with reference to associated ethical issues. Of particular interest is, necessarily, his emphasis on the body and its valid photographic representation.

*** Desvendando a loucura escondida da cidade: as fotografias do hospício de Claudio Edinger ***

A enfermidade mental tornou-se um componente associado à vida urbana. O fotógrafo Claudio Edinger dedica atenção especial ao assunto em um dos seus principais fotolivros ao fotografar o asilo mental de São Paulo, Jaqueri. Nesse sentido, este ensaio analisa as estratégias utilizadas pelo fotógrafo brasileiro ao fotografar os pacientes da instituição, levando-se em consideração questões de ordem ética. Mais especificamente, analisaremos a sua ênfase ao corpo e a sua representação fotográfica.


Palavras-chave: Edinger, Claudio; asilos mentais na fotografia; Jaqueri, hospital mental (São Paulo).

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Biografia do Autor

David William Foster, Arizona State University. Address: 85281 Street, Tempe, Arizona, The United States of America.

Regent Professor of Spanish and women and gender studies at Arizona State University. He has written extensively on Argentine narrative and theater, and he has held Fulbright teaching appointments in Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay. He has also served as an Inter-American Development Bank professor in Chile. Foster has held visiting appointments at Fresno State College, Vanderbilt University, University of California-Los Angeles, University of California-Riverside, and Florida International University. He has conducted six seminars for teachers under the auspices of the National Endowment for the Humanities, the most recent in São Paulo in summer 2013.

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2019-12-16

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Foster, D. W. (2019). Unhiding hidden urban madness: the asylum photographs of Claudio Edinger. Letrônica, 12(3), e35337. https://doi.org/10.15448/1984-4301.2019.3.35337