Between the prestige and the penury: the Paulista Museum and the acquisition of a photographic laboratory

ABSTRACT This study shows the institutional trajectory of the Paulista Museum during the 1930s, essentially in the relation with the visibility processes of its scientific and historical projects. Photography and prints are treated as central points of this process, in which the photographic laboratory and the publication of the Revista do Museu Paulista play a key role in sustaining it. Parallelly, the study focuses on its precarious financial condition, which prevented rapid access to the needed resources to maintain the international prestige. The debate is in between the visual culture and the intellectual history of the first half of the 20th century.

摘要：本研究梳理了20世纪30年代保罗斯塔博物馆（Paulista Museum）的制度发展轨迹，核心围绕其科学与历史项目的传播可见性进程展开。摄影与版画被视作该进程的核心载体，其中摄影实验室与《保罗斯塔博物馆学报》（Revista do Museu Paulista）的出版工作，对维系该进程起到了关键支撑作用。与此同时，本研究亦聚焦该馆拮据的财务状况：这一状况使其无法快速获取维系其国际声望所需的各类资源。本研究的讨论范畴横跨20世纪上半叶的视觉文化与知识史领域。