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Fotoclubismo : Brazilian modernist photography and the Foto-Cine Clube Bandeirante, 1946-1964 : [exhibition, New York, Museum of Modern Art, March 21, 2021-June 19, 2021

Exposition. New York, Museum of Modern Art. 2021

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Published in conjunction with the first major museum exhibition of Brazilian modernist photography outside of Brazil, Fotoclubismo presents the groundbreaking creative achievements of São Paulo's Foto-Cine Clube Bandeirante, a group of amateur photographers founded in 1939 that is essentially unknown today to European and North American audiences. The vast majority of FCCB members pursued photography outside of their day jobs as lawyers, businessmen, accountants, journalists, engineers, biologists and bankers, but they were nonetheless quite serious about their artistic ambition. Their radical experimentations with process and form and their determination to distill inventive compositions from everyday life contributed to their esteemed reputation within an active international postwar scene - a status that has been all but forgotten


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    Niveau 3 - Arts