The multiple faces of Valério Vieira

ABSTRACT

This article aims to analyse the work of Valerio Vieira (1862-1941) in five parts. The first part revisits the creative processes entailed in the making of Os Trinta Valérios (c.1900) and Segundo panorama de São Paulo (1922) as we look at both works in connection with their historical context. The present analysis sheds lights on an author whose work is more aligned with the practices of nineteenth-century photograph rather than the proposals of modernism, while highlighting the artist’s originality. In the four subsequent parts, we approach the relations between Valerio Vieira’s work and other fields of art: cinema, theatre, and music through real or imaginary interchanges with artists like Georges Melies, Leopoldo Fregoli, Almirante and Pixinguinha.

KEYWORDS:
Valerio Vieira; Photography; History of Photography; Photomontage; Self-portrait