Identity and memorialistic traces materialized in the photograph by Ivo Tavares of the outskirts of Salvador-BA

Abstract

The study is aimed to evidence the identity and memorialistic traces materialized in the photograph of Ivo Tavares, which demonstrate a resignification of the outskirts of Salvador – BA. In relation to the methodological procedures, the research is configured as qualitative and descriptive, associated to evidential paradigm and document method, which enable to identify vestiges in the photograph of Ivo Tavares that are available by means of his Instagram account. In order to expand investigative and interpretative possibilities, it was applied a questionnaire with open-ended questions directed to the photographer. Based on the reached results, it can be affirmed that the photograph produced by Ivo Tavares is a document which materializes information that both demystifies the concept of periphery and favors the production of new information about the sociocultural practices of subjects that integrate this place, who can feel represented in this document that materializes traces of identity and memory. It is concluded that the subject also constitutes his identity and memory in the materialization and production of documents, which are perpetuated for beyond their time and geographic space. This way, the document enables that the subject record what is representative for him, both in his individuality and in the collectivity