Álbuns de casamento: o rito de passagem e seu registro fotográfico

Abstract

It is inevitable to consider photography as an integrant symbol of collectivity’s social life during the past two centuries. Capable to register the experienced facts, from the most current to the most distinguished and special, the photographic record is present in a general way in the lives of people, creating a link with the movements and facts which circumscribe their existences. That characterizes it – the photograph – as a time and space representative symbol. Time, this one, punctuated by the going-in and going-out through doors that give access into the main rooms of a house, corporative allegory used by Arnold Van Gennep on his 1997 book “The Rites of Passage”, to refer the social trajectory and social-passages-rites of groups and individuals, in diverse societies. Specifically, this investigation involves photography, which is the raw-material for the construction of catholic wedding’s albums, turning them into a cut portion of the narrative that celebrates the eternal union between two Christians.