Abstract
Eduardo Gageiro is a world-renowned Portuguese photographer. He has exhibited and received awards in dozens of countries, worked as a photojournalist and travelled the world for decades, but Lisbon is the most favoured setting for his work. In this paper we examine
Portugal’s capital city through Gageiro’s lens in the 1960s and 70s, especially during the 1974 Carnation Revolution, which Gageiro was one of the few photographers to cover, notably following the Movement of the Captains in downtown Terreiro do Paço.
An approach to neorealism is clear in many of his pictures, in the sense of an aesthetics seeking to expose the truth, with a social awareness and willingness to politically intervene, and, accordingly, to show the city’s reality through its disparities, injustice, poverty, ignorance, prejudice, and suffering.
Portugal’s capital city through Gageiro’s lens in the 1960s and 70s, especially during the 1974 Carnation Revolution, which Gageiro was one of the few photographers to cover, notably following the Movement of the Captains in downtown Terreiro do Paço.
An approach to neorealism is clear in many of his pictures, in the sense of an aesthetics seeking to expose the truth, with a social awareness and willingness to politically intervene, and, accordingly, to show the city’s reality through its disparities, injustice, poverty, ignorance, prejudice, and suffering.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Cities of the Lusophone World |
| Editors | Doris Wieser, Ana Filipa Prata |
| Place of Publication | Oxford |
| Publisher | Peter Lang |
| Pages | 17-36 |
| Number of pages | 20 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 978-1-78874-252-8 , 978-1-78874-253-5 , 978-1-78874-254-2 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-1-78874-251-1 |
| Publication status | Published - 2018 |
Keywords
- Eduardo Gageiro
- Lisbon (Portugal)
- Photojournalism
- Photography
- Neorealism
- 20th century