Retratos em preto e branco: dinâmicas sociais no bairro da Ponta Verde e a (des)construção do cartão postal de Maceió

Abstract

This work deals with the waterfront of the Ponta Verde neighborhood, a section that works as a tourist shrine in Maceió. It is a scenario whose image is highly publicized, and it is almost exclusively through it that the postcard of the capital, and its current tourist identity, is built and sold within the national market. However, it is important to observe the place that exists beyond your media photographs. A showcase space for the city, the stretch becomes the scene of social confl icts, religious traditions and cultural events that Maceió holds. It is a space of multiple divisions and interventions, which is fragmented into new “pieces” based on the daily diversity of its uses and characters – characteristics whose postcard, harmonic and paradisiacal, does not support. For this reason, through interdisciplinary research, an immersion is practiced here in the historical, imagery and daily aspects of this part of the city, to obtain a deep and comprehensive look at the essence of the place, which escapes its hegemonic image disclosed and apprehends the space in all its dimensions. A look that penetrates the various layers that make up this place and thus returns an honest, fair, and real “radiography” of this important postcard.