Retratos da velhice: o eternizar de memórias e a construção de novas representações e identidades de idoso em Tocantinópolis

Abstract

In recent years, the number of elderly people in Brazil has increased significantly. It is the population that has been most studied due to its adjunct phenomena in different areas and perspectives, making it an intellectual field in constant construction. Thus, through reflection on the projects and studies undertaken, we seek to contribute to the new perspective in relation to human aging, since in the last ten years, Tocantinópolis has provided its aging population with a range of projects and actions with the objective of contribute to the improvement of the quality of life, consisting positively in the behavior / use of this generation in the social and family scope. In this sense, there was a change in the behavior of the elderly themselves. In this sense, it is evident that photography, even though it is something complex, establishes and plays a fundamental role in the life history of these subjects when it has the power to portray and eternalize rare moments, identities, cultural expressions and representation of factual existence. The objectives of this study are to make use of photography as an instrument for recording and analyzing the memories, representations and identities of the Tocantins' elderly. Use the various possibilities of interpretations provided by photography. This is an exploratory field study in which the use of photography as a resource to rescue memory is used as a starting point. It is understood that photography is a working method because it presents us with a set of possibilities for analysis that will allow us to think about the existence of the visual stories of the Tocantins' elderly, as a way of studying visuality, memory and the expressions realized from the self-images.