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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
Discovering Brazil s unknown modernist photographers
A MoMA exhibition displays the works of photographers who became pioneers of modernism in Brazil, but remained unacknowledged for the past 50 years.
An expression of Brazilian modernist photography: Circus by Julio Agostinelli (1951)
Gertrudes Altschul, a Jewish photographer born in Germany in 1904, fled her home country to escape Nazi persecution in 1939. She immigrated to São Paulo, Brazil, where she opened with her husband a business of handmade decorative flowers.
A few years later, in 1952, Altschul she signed up for a basic photography course and became part of a photo club called Foto Cine Clube Bandeirante (FCCB).