This work tries to approximate memory and photography, and at the same time the act of make photography and act of writing history. Then the work persecutes the propose of analyze a group of four photos that Augusto Malta made in the streets of Rio de Janeiro in the beginning of the 20th century. In the 19th century was given to the photographers the function of recorders of a world passing through many changes. Those professionals were hired as the responsibles to keep the images that were changing quickly, especially in the cities. There was a desire to build an album dedicated to the memory of times, and prove of the changes in the world. This was the work that Augusto Malta did for the mayor Pereira Passos. Through this way the photography is analyzed as a faithful representation of the visible world. The Kiosque s images became a prove to the project of modernization of the city, in a relation to the national mobilization around a modern identity.