Imagens da Modernidade Paulistana: a cidade de São Paulo entre as décadas de 30 e 60 do século XX

The present article I consisted initially in a reflection on the possibilities analyticalhistory graphics of the photographic document of the urban space, considering the great potential of implicit information to the image. Such reflection aims at to subsidize the basement for the understanding of the paper of the photograph in the construction and setting of the concept of modernity, intended for the city of Sao Paulo as representative industrial metropolis of the process of politician-economic transformations happened of the 1929 crisis and the Revolution of 1930 in Brazil. Excellent and pertinent character of the understood period enters the decades of thirty and sixty of century XX in Brazil, is the construction of an aesthetic national architectural, based in the European production of the one between wars, for the new state and the Brazilian elites. The city of Sao Paulo gradual goes acquiring new look(identity), aspect of North American urbanity, upright in expansion, skyline framing the context. They are images of this moment, of diverse photographers, who we will use to demonstrate to these transformations of the city and the establishment of the new paradigms of modernity