The object of this study is Brazilian writer Mário de Andrade (1893-1945) in his experience as a modern photographer, during his stay in the Northern region of Brazil, specially in the Amazon region, during the first of his two long Apprentice Tourist trips throughout Brazil in 1927. The author analyses the creative process by which the Codaque's images constitute the prints and negatives image diary that overlaps with the diary of legends and of text where the traveller's impressions and the fictionist's invention are developed. The article highlights certain links between the photography produced in this trip and Andrade's readings, poetry and fiction.
Mário de Andrade; Travel Journals; Brazilian Modernism; Modern Photography
