A thousand and one deaths of a student: photo icons and photographic history

Abstract

This study evaluated the possibility of a photographic history from the notion of photo icons that helps us to observe how images make history and shape our experience of it. Following the trajectory, not always linear, of a photograph of a student pursued by the police, taken by Evandro Teixeira and published in Jornal do Brasil on June 22^nd, 1968, in perspective to other images taken by the photographic crew of Correio da Manhã, published on the same day, and found years later in the archives of the English newspaper Daily Herald.

Keywords:
Photographic History; Photo Icons; Student Demonstration; Brazil: 1968