Vers es do "progresso": a moderniza o como tema e problema do fotógrafo Milit o Augusto de Azevedo

This article centers itself in the inheritance of Milit o Augusto de Azevedo (1837 1905) with the objective of investigate the different ways he represented the modernization process in the last decades of the 19th century in Brazil and especially in the city of S o Paulo. The Milit o s documents analysis photographs, letters and a índice das fotografias de antigos paulistas configures a multiplicity of meanings about the transformations occurred in the S o Paulo city since 1860, and in the Brazilian politics after the Republic s Proclamation. The character s comments about his changing world asseverate that, less than directly related to the progress , the photographer s representations form an amalgam of mismatched temporalities, which imbricate and tension themselves.