The Foto-Cine Clube Bandeirante’s Reception of Geraldo de Barros’s 1951 Fotoforma Exhibition (original) (raw)
2021, post. notes on art in a global context
This essay is the second in a series of texts on the Foto Cine Club Bandeirante, a group of amateur photographers whose ambitious and innovative works embodied the abundant originality of postwar Brazilian culture.1 The series coincides with the exhibition Fotoclubismo: Brazilian Modernist Photography, 1946–1964, on view at the Museum of Modern Art from May 8 to September 26, 2021. https://post.moma.org/the-foto-cine-clube-bandeirantes-reception-of-geraldo-de-barross-1951-fotoforma-exhibition/
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