“Modernidade! Photography from Brazil (1940–1960)“

The exhibition “Modernidade! Photography from Brazil (1940–1960)” transports guests into the golden age of Brazilian pictures. It sheds gentle on one of many nation’s most important cultural transformations, when pictures more and more got here to be understood as a contemporary, inventive medium and, by way of progressive strategies and visible narrative varieties, helped form nationwide id.

The focus is on photographers who, between the Forties and Nineteen Sixties, pushed past the boundaries of conventional pictures and developed new aesthetics. Their works mirror not solely Brazil’s social and political modifications, but in addition the seek for a brand new visible language suited to a contemporary Brazil, an period marked by new beginnings, industrialization, and cultural redefinition.

Among the excellent photographers featured within the exhibition are Gaspar Gasparian, German Lorca, Nelson Kojranski, José Yalenti, and Eduardo Salvatore. Through experimental approaches, they interpreted Brazilian actuality in unconventional methods. Their images doc a society in transition, between conventional heritage and a progressive spirit.

The works, that are already a part of the collections of MoMA in New York and Tate Modern in London, are actually being introduced in Germany for the primary time on the Leica Gallery Frankfurt.