Assis Horta: retratos de família
Cultural Translation –Cultural Difference –Family Portraits –Assis Horta –New State.
This work focus in the analisys of family portraits in studio and itinerance activities by the photografher Assis Horta, born in Diamantina, in period of New State (1937-1945) from the perspective of translation and cultural difference, concepts presented and explored by Jacques Derrida and some of his followers. Postcolonial philosopher Homi K. Bhabha suggests, in a series of articles gathered in the volume The Place of the Culture (2007), from the derridian perspective, that the world can be read like words are read and the several cultures, as interdisciplinary texts, therefore, “translatable” from a historical-political-social context to another. This adaptation process of cultural narratives generates other discursive texts that can be analyzed from cultural products such as photographic portraits, where micro-aspects of scenarios, pose, body gestures, clothing, etc, allow us to glimpse plastic and social compositions that, the one time, contest and settle. In this way, the production of the first photographic records of ordinary people at the beginning of the 20th century becomes particularly interesting.