A imagem moderna como produtora e produto da Arquitetura Moderna: as imagens fotográficas de Mario Fontenelle e Marcel Gautherot na construção da nova capital do Brasil nas revistas Brasília e módulo

This paper aims to examine the photographic images taken for the publications brasília and Módulo, magazines established during the construction of Brasilia in the 1950s to justify the construction of and to advertise the new capital and the modern city of Brasília. These magazines promoted a new modern way of life and thus they served as an important documentation of modern architecture in Brazil. The photographic documents published by these magazines reveal the photograph of the modern building as the main force as well as the vehicle in the production of a modern image. The representation of modern architecture was created through the photographic image that accompanied the modern discourse. Two photographers, who documented this process, Marcel Gautherot and Mario Fontenelle, created photographs of symbolic value. The modern image became a mix between photography and architecture whereas the two subjects require and benefit from one another. The photograph needs architecture to become the means of representation and architecture needs photography to sell the modern way of life. The examples of these two photographers thus make visible how the initial documentation process was used as an advertising image, becoming the work of art and finally a symbol of modern movement.