Leafing through Lisbon

Eduardo Gageiro’s urban photobook Lisboa no Cais da Memória (2003)

Abstract

This article examines the representation of late Estado Novo (New State) Lisbon in Eduardo Gageiro’s Lisboa no Cais da Memória (2003). I explore how the work’s anchorage and clear affiliation to humanistic street photography set up a particular reading of the work. In this light, I will then consider how the text’s format as a photobook works to concatenate and undergird this reading to create a urban-like space in which the reader can follow in the footsteps of the flâneur/street photographer through an articulated simulation of the space-time in question.