Portuguese Photographic Heritage Project
The Foto Beleza Collection, consisting of around 450 000 photos, is a fundamental tool for the knowledge of the History of Contemporary Portugal given the richness of its urban and rural landscapes photos from across the country, namely Porto and the Douro region, as well as its collection of portraits of generations of thousands of families.
The aim of this Project, co-funded by the program POS_Conhecimento, was to carry out the scan and online publishing of this collection, as well its historical contextualization, through the elaboration of introductory texts, which allow the user to understand each image’s context. It was thus intended to build a reference source capable of arousing the visitor’s curiosity in finding images of an ancestor or knowing how the Douro region was during several periods of time of the 20th century, through an intuitive search, simple and thorough historical framework.
Within the scope of this project it was created the website Portuguese Photographic Heritage (www.espoliofotograficoportugues.pt) and a book bearing the same title was published.
Coordinator - Fernando de Sousa