This research is part of the project “Allegory of Heritage: nature, technique and cross-images of the Ceará backlands” (NATIMA), started in February 2018. The activities carried out by this project were divided into two blocks: 1- research on the history and cultural heritage of the backlands of Ceará; 2- interventions in public schools through workshops on the research carried out. In this paper, we intend to think about the representations of Quixadá urban daily life made from some photographs. For this, we chose to analyze images of this city produced between 1885 and 1930. Thus, aiming to work the representations of their daily life through the photographs produced in this period, we looked at their sayings and unspoken (CERTEAU, 1993). Finally, they identified how these representations helped in the construction of their own image, their spaces of sociability and their identity. For this, cataloging of several photographs was made, selecting, among them, those that will be presented and analyzed in this work: José de Barros Square by photographer Jacinto de Sousa (1920) and Quixadá City by photographer Miguel de Moura (1885- 1909). From this analysis we also understand the contexts of an era, the desires to maintain a memory of the city and the attempts to silence the other images that opposed this idealization represented by photographs.
