Photography and political culture in the days of the Good Neighbor policy

The article analyses Genevieve Naylor's photographic production, photographer commissioned by the US State Department to shape the Brazil's image as a good neighbor during World War II. The approach aims to build parallels between the cultural presence of the black population in US and Brazil, throughout the analysis of the content and expression of Naylor's photos in Rio; the contacts she made with Brazilian intellectuality during her stay at the city and, finally, the two lyrics of songs sang by Carmen Miranda, one of the icons of the mass popular culture, that prefigured in Brazil during the forties, the relationship of the popular and the national.

Black culture; Photograph; Good Neighbor policy; Genevieve Naylor