Author: Hermanson Meister, Sarah

Binding: Hardcover

Number Of Pages: 184

Release Date: 13-04-2021

Details: Product Description 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 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.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. Review [Fotoclubismo: Brazilian Modernist Photography] Dismantles the narrative of photographic history focusing on an understudied chapter from the heart of Sao Paulo. -- Kate Simpson ― Aesthetica Forge[s] the link between photographers doing it for fun and amusement and those trying to create a new and modern artistic statement. -- Martha Schwendener ― New York Times Experience the abstract beauty of these 60 amateur photographs from postwar Brazil... -- Richard B. Woodward ― Wall Street Journal History is not a static object or a scriptural text, but a constantly shifting compendium of experiences. The [book] offers tribute to freshly appreciated talent and a generation intoxicated with the magic of its moment. Even more important, it recognises the high (but widely denigrated) art of dilettantism. -- Ariella Budick ― Financial Times A group of amateur photographers in São Paulo, Brazil, founded the Foto (later Foto-Cine) Clube Bandeirante. Its members―lawyers, scientists, bankers―took pictures of subjects, ranging from architecture to the natural world with an experimental rigor rivalling that of any avant-garde artist. -- Andrea K. Scott ― New Yorker A restoration of a vital but forgotten chapter of art history -- Miss Rosen ― Blind Striking modernist images..largely forgotten by art history. ― Bookforum Amateur hour turns into golden hour for forgotten Brazilian photo club. -- Gabriella Angeleti ― Art Newspaper

Package Dimensions: 10.8 x 9.3 x 0.7 inches

Languages: English, French