书名：Fotoclubismo: Brazilian Modernist Photography and the Foto-Cine Clube Bandeirante、1946–1964 / 摄影俱乐部：巴西现代主义摄影和班代兰特摄影俱乐部 1946-1964
定价：315.0
ISBN：9781633450844
作者：Sarah Hermanson Meister
版次：1
出版时间：2021-03

内容提要：

题 目：Fotoclubismo: Brazilian Modernist Photography and the Foto-Cine Clube Bandeirante、1946–1964 / 摄影俱乐部：巴西现代主义摄影和班代兰特摄影俱乐部 1946-1964

作 者：Sarah Hermanson Meister

出 版：The Museum of Modern Art, New York，2021

装 帧：精装，184页

尺 寸：23*26.7 cm

 

 

How a small photography club gave birth to modernist photography in Brazil

 

Published in conjunction with the first major museum exhibition of Brazilian modernist photography outside of Brazil, Fotoclubismo presents the groundbreaking creative achievements of S?o 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.

 

This richly illustrated publication assembles a robust selection of photographs to introduce the FCCB’s photographic experiments to an international audience. Six chapters highlight individual achievements nestled between thematic groupings that suggest the breadth of the club’s talent. Curator Sarah Meister’s essay situates the FCCB within the broader contemporary art scene in Brazil as well as a dynamic network of photographers around the world, and offers fresh insight into the status of the amateur then and now. This is the first non-Portuguese-language publication to grapple with these photographs that were widely heralded at the time of their creation.