Pierre Verger's photographic art: the decoloniality of Afro-Brazilian culture as a territory of resistance in Bahia

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  • Mariana Brazil UFBA

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https://doi.org/10.5965/24471267712021254

Keywords:

Verger, cultural identity , syncretism

Abstract

We herein bring a descriptive approach to Pierre Verger's photographic art focused on his view of Afro-Brazilian culture in Bahia. We discuss here Verger's ethnographic looked forward at the Afro-Brazilian population, which brings a language of intersection between photography and ethnology.The images that reflect the cutout of religious syncretism in Candomblé rituals are understood as an own visual language, not limited to a simple documentary. Images are understood as one of the forms of manifestation of Afro-Brazilian art which represents a strategy of resistance by African slaves in Bahia, through its cultural elements coming from a servile regime, with values ​​that emerged in the new environment. It is intended, therefore, to contribute to the knowledge of the interface between cultural identity / Afro-descendant ancestry and the art of Verger's photographs, in the perspective of the process of strengthening the cultural identity of the Afro-descendant community in Bahia.

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2021-04-01

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BRAZIL, Mariana. Pierre Verger’s photographic art: the decoloniality of Afro-Brazilian culture as a territory of resistance in Bahia. Revista Apotheke, Florianópolis, v. 7, n. 1, 2021. DOI: 10.5965/24471267712021254. Disponível em: https://revistas.udesc.br/index.php/apotheke/article/view/19615. Acesso em: 18 sep. 2025.

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Vol. 7 No. 1 (2021): Other tones for the afro-diasporic debate in art and the color fortune

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Artigos Seção aberta

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