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H E CITY T H O TOG P R A S P A H I T C E X T Latinx and Latin American Profiles Frederick Luis Aldama, Editor C I T Y E H T T OG O R H A P P H S I A C T E X T O L U U Y R R A B A P A N T N E O P DOC U M Ã H S O R TOGRAP H Y O F O S T E F M A DAVID W I L L I U NIVERSITY OF PITTSBURG H P R E S S Published by the University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, Pa., 15260 Copyright © 2021, University of Pittsburgh Press All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America Printed on acid-free paper 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Cataloging-in-Publication data is available from the Library of Congress ISBN 13: 978-0-8229-4623-6 ISBN 10: 0-8229-4623-8 Cover photograph: Hildegard Rosenthal, Vista noturna do Viaduto do Chá / Night view of the Viaduto do Chá, circa 1939. São Paulo, Brazil. Instituto Moreira Salles. Cover design: Alex Wolfe To all my students, as always. • David William Foster 1940–2020 Gentle friend, sage guide, agile mind, passionate soul, explorer and creator of new venues of knowledge and affection, David gave us all our wings. CONTENTS Acknowledgments ix Introduction 3 Part One: Modernist Discoveries 1. Hildegard Rosenthal Discovers Brazilian Modernity 13 2. The Factory Floor as Urban Plaza in Hans Günter Flieg’s Photography of Industrial São Paulo 27 3. Thomaz Farkas and the Estádio de Pacaembu: A Theater of Brazilian Male Homosociality 43 Part Two: Shifting Perspectives 4. Above the Madding Crowd: Cássio Vasconcellos’s Aerial São Paulo 61 5. Urban Dynamics: Four Photographers 78 The Urban Panoramic of Juca Martins 78 Mauro Restiffe and Fading São Paulo 94 Ana Lucia Mariz and the Hidden Ruins of São Paulo 104 The Provincial Photography of Cristiano Mascaro 110 6. The Problematic Vernacular Photography of David Drew Zingg 117 Part Three: Megalopolitan Problems 7. Breaches in the Walls: Carlos Cazalis Photographs São Paulo 133 8. Unhiding Urban Madness: The Asylum Photographs of Claudio Edinger 149 viii CONTENTS Part Four: Living São Paulo 9. Humanity in the Megalopolis: Affective Photography 167 Alice Brill 167 Lily Sverner 181 10. Loving the Cancerous Body: Valdir Cruz’s Affective Photography 189 Conclusion 203 Notes 207 Works Cited 225 Index 233 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This research was made possible by the programs of Arizona State University, which has always been very generous with its support. I am grateful for strategic and technical support from the following research associates: Gabriela Don- go Arévalo, Beto Ortiz Mansanilla, Mariana Ruiz González Rentería, Patrick Thomas Ridge, Thomas Shalloe, Diana Díaz Gómez, Jesús Galán, and Frankie O’Neill. I am deeply grateful to my excelsior first reader, Patricia Hopkins, who thinks that periodic prose should be banned (at least, mine), and also to Cynthia M. Tompkins, my second reader and sometime academic accomplice. Finally, my Brazilian Studies colleagues Lígia Bezerra and Clarice Deal are constant inspira- tions for any substantive knowledge about Brazil I might have. Lígia also looked at the manuscript with an eye toward expunging cultural misinterpretations. Four of these essays have previously appeared in print in somewhat different format: “Hildegard Rosenthal descubre la modernidad.” Cuadernos del CILHA, vol. 20, no. 30, 2019, pp. 17–30; “Breaches in the Wall: Carlos Cazalis’s Photographs of São Paulo.” Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies, vol. 22, 2018, pp. 135–50; “The Photography of Thomaz Farkas and the Estádio de Pacaembu.” The Rout- ledge Companion to Gender, Sex and Latin American Culture, edited by Frederick Luis Aldama, Routledge, 2018, pp. 273–83; and “Unhiding Hidden Urban Mad- ness: The Asylum Photographs of Claudio Edinger.” Revista letrônica, vol. 12, no. 3, 2019. Escola de Humanidades, http://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/ojs/index. php/letronica/article/view/35337. ix