Produced by the IBGE's Institutional Memory team, the book "The IBGE Geographic Expeditions: A Portrait of Brazil (1941-1968)" will be released at 2:00 p.m. on Thursday, May 10, at the Center for Information Documentation and Dissemination of the institute, in Rio de Janeiro. The event will have as guests the IBGE president Roberto Luís Olinto Ramos and researchers Sérgio Nunes (UFF), Alceo Magnanini and Pedro Geiger (IBGE).

The book celebrates the 50th anniversary of the last geographic expedition (1968) and narrates fieldwork memories through text and photos. The selected documentation belongs to the Collection of Geographic Fieldwork, comprising 17,929 photographs that are digitized and available on the Library page, on the IBGE website.

"I've been intended to carry out a project with these photographs since my master's degree in Social Memory in 2000 and again in my doctorate in 2010, two times when I studied this collection. And now we made it, with the help of Fábio de Carvalho," said one of the organizers of the publication, Vera Abrantes. "We started with the expeditions that were published as articles in the Brazilian Journal of Geography and then we selected the photos," she explains.

The geographic expeditions promoted by IBGE began in 1941. Since then, a period of three decades (40, 50 and 60) of geographic fieldwork was open, with the objective of mapping, recognizing and integrating the national territory.

The three decades of expeditions contributed to consolidate the IBGE as a center for analysis of territorial planning and an agent in the structuring of geography, cartography and geodesy as professional fields in Brazil.

The IBGE Geographic Expeditions: A Portrait of Brazil (1941-1968)

Organizers: Fábio Mauro de Carvalho Leite e Vera Lucia Cortes Abrantes
Address: Teixeira de Freitas Auditorium (706, General Canabarro Street, Maracanã, Rio de Janeiro- RJ).
Date and time: May 10 (Thursday), at 2 p.m.