MoMA opens an exhibition highlighting a previously understudied chapter of photographic history
Installation view of Fotoclubismo: Brazilian Modernist Photography, 19461964, on view May 8, 2021 through September 26, 2021. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Photo: Jonathan Muzikar.
NEW YORK, NY
.-The Museum of Modern Art opened Fotoclubismo: Brazilian Modernist Photography, 19461964, the first museum exhibition of Brazilian modernist photography outside of Brazil. On view May 8 September 26, 2021, the exhibition focuses on the unforgettable creative achievements of São Paulos Foto-Cine Clube Bandeirante, a group of amateur photographers widely heralded in Brazil, but essentially unknown to European and North American audiences. Fotoclubismo is comprised of over 60 photographs drawn generously from MoMAs collection; together, they bring forward the extraordinary range of achievements of this group, provide valuable insight into the way photographic aesthetics were fram
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February 12, 2021
Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal Cuba perhaps more than most other countries has been the victim of imperialism and colonisation.
The greatest impact of imperialism and colonisation is on people, in particular, indigenous people. Cuba is no exception.
There are also other lasting impacts. Marxist political economists Paul Baran (
The Political Economy of Growth,
New York: Monthly Review Press, 1957) and André Gunder Frank (
Capitalism and Underdevelopment in Latin America, New York: Monthly Review Press, 1967) wrote of the devastating long-term effects of imperial dominance. Frank described those effects as ‘the development of underdevelopment’.
According to the Baran-Frank thesis, as it is known, an underdeveloped country is not in a state of ‘static equilibrium’ preventing development. On the contrary, underdevelopment is the result of imperial dominance, leading also to a chronic state of dependency. Colonis