Patrícia Ferraz de Matos (ICS-ULisboa) has published two entries in a collective anthology with the title “Printed Photography and Propaganda in the Portuguese Estado Novo”, ed. by Filomena Serra (Gijón: Muga, 2021). The book explores how printed photography under the Portuguese Estado Novo became a tool both for official propaganda as well as to discourses opposed to the regime. The texts are available in Portuguese and in English
Entries by Patrícia Ferraz de Matos:
Book Abstract:
“Through montage and photomontage, printed photography under Portuguese Estado Novo explored the narrative and connotative potential of the image in different printed media, becoming highly significant both in the official propaganda and in the discourses of those opposed to the regime. The reader will find a set of selected publications from the late 1920s to the 1970s, organised in four thematic chapters transversal. We have given priority to information regarding the authorship of the photographs, drawings, illustrations, texts and other informative elements, with the aim of offering a contextualised synthesis of the public and historical dimension of this printed photographic culture, always with a view on the dialogue between text and image.”
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