Unhiding hidden urban madness: the asylum photographs of Claudio Edinger

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

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

Abstract

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.

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David William Foster, Arizona State University, School of International Letters and Cultures, 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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Published

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

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Vol. 12 No. 3 (2019): Literatura e Fotografia

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