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"""Traces of the Unseen is an innovative study on the role of photography in revealing the violent underside of modernization in Brazil. Through a careful analysis of visual records about key events in the country's history--the Canudos massacre, the Amazonian rubber boom and its aftermath--the author shows how photographers including Claude Lévi-Strauss, Roger Casement, and Mário de Andrade drew attention to forgotten communities, victims of Brazil's stride toward progress. A must-read for those interested in the iconography of Brazilian modernity."" --Patrícia Vieira, author of States of Grace: Utopia in Brazilian Culture"

Traces of the Unseen is an innovative study on the role of photography in revealing the violent underside of modernization in Brazil. Through a careful analysis of visual records about key events in the country's history--the Canudos massacre, the Amazonian rubber boom and its aftermath--the author shows how photographers including Claude Levi-Strauss, Roger Casement, and Mario de Andrade drew attention to forgotten communities, victims of Brazil's stride towards progress. A must-read for those interested in the iconography of Brazilian modernity. --Patricia Vieira, author of States of Grace: Utopia in Brazilian Culture

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CAROLINA SÁ CARVALHO is an assistant professor of Hispanic and Lusophone literatures at the University of Toronto.

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