This article intends to consider some questions concerning the use of photography in historical investigations raised by exploring a study, which has made use of this type of documentation as a main source of exposition of the history of Public Schools within the City of Curitiba from 1922 to 1960. It becomes clear historical surveys of the importance of the photographic image become compromised when the researcher is unable to apprehend the explicative potential of that source. We, therefore, use the example of the Curitiba primary school to exercise this view-point that, in the reading of the photographic image, seeks out aspects that add to the study of school culture, which, in turn, allows for the understanding of the institutionalization process of the Curitiban school groups.
School Culture; School Photographs; School Memory
