The other side (side B) of Evandro Teixeira: photograph and resistance in the Cultural Notebooks of Jornal do Brasil (1963-1979)

Abstract

This article is the first researching outcome that resulted in the analysis of the criticisms and resistances in the photographs of Evandro Teixeira, published on the Cover of the Culture Booklet entitled Caderno B of the Jornal do Brasil, during the Civil-Military Regime. The analysis focuses more precisely on the photographer’s participation in the Culture Book, which runs from March 1963 to Amnesty, in August 1979. We consider the expression of visual discourse as the main focus, and verbal discourse, as input to support, in order to analyze journalistic representations. We present a brief approach on the importance of Caderno B to culture in the national journalistic press, followed by a contextualization of Evandro Teixeira’s work to understand, even partially, his trajectory. Although widely explored in scientific work, there are few studies on the photographer dedicated to emphasizing the perception of the insertion of his photos in the Cultural Notebooks; photographs that go beyond the culture and acts of the high society of Rio de Janeiro to denounce and criticize the current system. Evandro Teixeira’s photos and accompanying news sometimes demonstrate proximity to the drama’s media discourse. His simplified speech, often of an affective format, brought to light a message that readers could easily understand. Time seems to flow in his photos, as if the past were presented, or as if there were a spiral flowing now; or from another angle, sometimes to return to an event that seems to be again what it once was, only different - or both at the same time, in the fabric of a temporal network.