Between looks: time and cultural exchanges in images of Maranhão Island

Abstract

The article is about the survival of imagery that is present in iconographic representations of the city of São Luís of Maranhão. In distinct supports and by using as a foundation the notion of “origin” developed by Walter Benjamin, it discusses the idea of a visuality of the city that has been reinvented in different periods of time, showing heterogeneous exchanges of glances and time frames in order to reveal a primitive imagery restoration process that is always updated.

Keywords

• History
• imagery
• city