Quatre photographes de la vie moderne – Brésil 1940-1964
The exhibition Modernités: Photographie Brésilienne (Modernities: Brazilian Photography) will be on display at La Fondation Calouste Gudbenkian through July 26th, 2015, gathering the work of four photographers active from the early 1940s through the mid-1960s, demonstrating that modernity cannot emerge from nothing, but rather from a series of ruptures.
In the early 1940s, with the Second World War, Brazil became the chosen land for thousands of immigrants, and the country underwent a unique period of modernization that affected every level of Brazilian society. This exhibition explores the transformation through the visions of four photographers with highly different styles and sensibilities. Marcel Gautherot (1910-1996) is a Parisian from a working-class background, an admirer of the work of Le Corbusier and Mies van der Rohe. Starting in 1958, he had access to the architecture of Brasilia, a reflection of his friendship with Oscar Niemeyer. Hans Gunter Flieg (1923), a German Jew, fled Nazism and took refuge in Brazil in 1939, specializing in industrial photography. Thomas Farkas (1924-2011), a Hungarian immigrant to Brazil, is undoubtedly the most famous of the four photographers, as well as the most avant-garde, taking a very early interest in photography as an artform. And finally, José Medeiros (1921-1990), a photojournalist born in a poor state with little cultural tradition, learned photography by working at local newspapers, and documented the changes throughout every class of Brazilian society.
EXHIBITION
Modernités : Photographie Brésilienne 1940 – 1964
Photographs by : Marcel Gautherot, José Medeiros, Thomaz Farkas and Hans Gunter Flieg
Curated by : Antonio Pinto Ribeiro, Ludger Derenthal and Samuel Titan Jr.
From May 6 to Augst 32rd, 2015
Fondation Calouste Gudbenkian
39, bd de La Tour Maubourg
75007 Paris
France
Email: [email protected]
http://www.gulbenkian-paris.org/
