Brazilian Modernism 1940-1964

Featuring the works of four selected photographers, this catalogue explores Brazil’s path to Modernism. The visual language deployed by Thomaz Farkas, Marcel Gautherot, José Medeiros and Hans Gunter Flieg draws on the advanced forms of the Neues Sehen (New Vision) movement of the 1920s and 1930s. Their reportage, photographic essays and exhibitions helped to popularise the cultural avant-garde. A photographic portrait of Brazil
- The birth of modern photography in Brazil, using the example of four renowned photographers
- Over 350 black-and-white photographs of factories and power stations, football and Carnival, indigenous tribes,
and modernist buildings in the new capital Brasília
- THE illustrated book for all Brazil fans and lovers of great photographic art