Title: Fotografia profissional, arquivo e circulação: a produção de Theodor Preising em São Paulo (1920-1940)
Abstract: This work aims to study the conformation of professional field of photography in São Paulo and its relation to the visual dimension of society between 1920 and 1940.Therefore, it is analyzed in historical perspective the production of the photographer Theodor Preising in their circuits of production, circulation, consumption, apropriation and action.When arrived in Brazil immigrated from Germany in the 1920s, Preising continued its activity as professional photographer.Once settled with family in São Paulo, remained as editor of albums and postcards with natural, rural and urban landscapes of the country, provided photographic documentation services for public agencies and private institutions, moved in press photography through the magazine S. Paulo (1936) and the State Department of Press and Propaganda (DEIP), to retire at the Documentation Service of the Universidade de São Paulo (USP) in 1952.Without losing sight of other dimensions, it is emphasized the circulation of visual materials produced by Preising, articulating his biography with the biography of his photographic production in order to perceive them in social interaction, in displacements and mediations that sometimes converge on archives.The understanding was sought to both in Preising's trajectory as in the route of the artifacts that it has produced, whose core is the legacy file with about 15,000 images, which participate in systems of action that also involve individuals, social networks and institutions when come into circulation.In reduced scale, it was reconstituted the professional trajectory of Preising to understand its insertion in a professional field in formation between the specialization and the diversification.On a larger scale, was evaluated as the structuring of this field was related to the consolidation of a visual culture which is part the natural, rural and urban landscapes of the specific regions of the country, which are subject to resignification enabling further interpretations over time.