Fair in Canudos (BA).
Vladimir Herzog1975-02
Instituto Vladimir Herzog
São Paulo, Brazil
Photograph of Fair in Canudos (BA), Brazil, registered by Vladimir Herzog during research in February, 1975. Journalist Paulo Markun, in the book “My dear Vlado”, suggests that Vladimir Herzog had already planned a documentary about Canudos and Antônio Conselheiro since the Arne Sucksdorff Seminar, in 1963. However, it was only in 1975, having left TV Cultura and leaving Visão Magazine, that this project began to take shape. In February, Herzog traveled to the region, from where he brought back two hundred photographs of the physical and human aspects of the places where he had been. In addition, he sketched a draft of research notes, screenplay and script for the documentary.
- Title: Fair in Canudos (BA).
- Creator: Vladimir Herzog
- Creator Lifespan: 1937/1975
- Creator Nationality: Brazilian
- Creator Gender: Male
- Creator Death Place: São Paulo, Brazil
- Creator Birth Place: Osijek, Croatia
- Date Created: 1975-02
- Physical Location: São Paulo, Brazil
- Location Created: Canudos, Bahia.
- Provenance: Ivo Herzog's Personal Archive
- Subject Keywords: Vladimir Herzog, Canudos, Bahia, documentary, military dictatorship, Antônio Conselheiro.
- Rights: Vladimir Herzog Collection
- External Link: Vladimir Herzog Collection
- Depicted Location: Canudos, Bahia.
- Depicted Topic: Landscape and inhabitants of the region of Canudos (BA), Brazil, 1975.
- Biography: Vladimir Herzog (1937-1975) was a Brazilian intellectual who acted as journalist and filmmaker in the 1960s and 1970s. From a Jewish family, he survived the holocaust and arrived at Brazil in 1946. He has built a solid career in important media-press organizations, such as BBC, Visão Magazine (Sight), and TV Cultura, always inclined to cultural themes and to the distressing Brazilian social issues. In October 1975, during the Brazilian military dictatorship, Vlado was tortured and assassinated by agents of the State, who had forged a fake suicide. Since then, his family and his friends fight for Memory, Truth and Justice regarding his emblematic case. In 2009, the Vladimir Herzog Institute was created to celebrate the life and the path of the journalist and to honor Democracy, the Human Rights and the Freedom of Speech.
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