In 1939, 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 (“Filigree,” above, was made by Gertrudes Altschul, in 1953), with an experimental rigor rivalling that of any avant-garde artist. “Fotoclubismo: Brazilian Modernist Photography, 1946-1964,” at moma (through Sept. 26), surveys the club’s work, beginning the year that it launched the influential magazine Boletim.
Mid-Century Brazilian Photography, at MOMA
In “Fotoclubismo: Brazilian Modernist Photography, 1946-1964,” the museum surveys the rigorous experimental work of Foto-Cine Clube Bandeirante, a group of amateur photographers.
Photograph © 2021 Estate of Gertrudes Altschul / Courtesy the Museum of Modern Art, New York