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Fotoclubismo

Brazilian Modernist Photography and the Foto-Cine Clube Bandeirante, 1946-1964
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Fotoclubismo unveils the largely unknown history of the Foto-Cine Clube Bandeirante (FCCB), a São Paulo-based group of amateur photographers whose groundbreaking experiments in the medium paralleled and contributed to the Western avant-garde. Published alongside a Museum of Modern Art exhibition, this volume features six thematic chapters showcasing the club's wide-ranging membership and their innovative works, reshaping the recognised history of photography and linking it with contemporary Brazilian art movements.
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This book appeals to readers interested in photography, modern art history, and Latin American culture, especially those keen to explore underrepresented narratives in the development of photographic art.

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Introduces Brazilian modernist photography to an international audience, presenting unknown yet unforgettable work within a complex context of race, gender, geography, and the status of the amateur

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Now more than 175 years after photography's invention, it is rare to discover a significant chapter of its history that is essentially unknown to European and North American audiences. São Paulo's Foto-Cine Clube Bandeirante (FCCB) is widely heralded in Brazil, but almost invisible to photography enthusiasts elsewhere.

Historically, their achievements were well known to the international circuit of salons in which they participated, including Otto Steinert and his fellow "Subjective" photographers in Germany and the Société Française de la Photographie in Paris. Nonetheless, to date, not a single American institution owns vintage photographs by anyone other than Geraldo de Barros.

Published to accompany an exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, Fotoclubismo assembles a robust selection of photographs to introduce the FCCB's ground-breaking photographic experiments to a wider audience. Six thematic chapters highlight individual achievements as well as the breadth of the club's membership, transforming the history of photography as we know it and connecting with contemporary Brazilian painting and São Paulo's then-newly-formed museums of modern art. This is the first non-Portuguese language publication to grapple with these photographs.

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Critics praise the book for restoring a forgotten chapter of photographic history and for its serious, ambitious exploration of the medium. Benjamin Clifford of Brooklyn Rail honours the photographs' dedication to the art form, while Julia Curl of Hyperallergic notes their distinct contribution despite clear dialogue with Western avant-garde masters. The New Yorker's Andrea K. Scott highlights the experimental rigour of the club’s members. Reviews from Art Newspaper and Wall Street Journal celebrate the visual beauty and historical significance of these works, and New York Times reviewer Martha Schwendener recognises the link forged between amateur and professional photographic artistry.

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ISBN: 9781633450844

Publisher: Museum of Modern Art

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 11 March 2021

Country: United States

Imprint: Museum of Modern Art

Illustration: 200 Illustrations

Contributors:

  • Edited by Sarah Hermanson Meister

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 230.0mm

Height: 267.0mm

Weight: 1140g

Pages: 184

About the Author

Sarah Hermanson Meister is Curator in the Robert B. Menschel Department of Photography at The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Recent exhibitions include Dorothea Lange: Words & Pictures (2020), Making Space: Women Artists and Postwar Abstraction (2017, with Starr Figura), and One and One is Four: The Bauhaus Photocollages of Josef Albers (2016). Her recent publications include Frances Benjamin Johnston: The Hampton Album(2019), Dorothea Lange: Migrant Mother (2018), Arbus Friedlander Winogrand: New Documents, 1967 (2017), and she was co-editor of and contributing author to the three-volume series Photography at MoMA (2015-2017). She is co-director of the August Sander Project (a five-year research initiative with Columbia University), and lead instructor for the online course Seeing Through Photographs on Coursera.

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