Brasilianische Belle Epoque | Book Presentation

International modernism outside Europe has rarely been considered in the history of photography. It is not very well-known, for example, that Brazil played a prominent role in photography from the 1830s onwards and developed an outstanding repertoire of techniques, discourses and individual formal languages. Based on intensive archival work and starting out from the photographer Valério Vieira, Alina Hofmann reconstructs the aesthetic and cultural context of photography in the “Brazilian Belle Époque”. She explores the question of what could or should have been achieved by photographic images around 1900. Vieira found humorous and critical answers to this question. His photographs convey a more comprehensive picture of the turn of the century than previously considered in research.

The book will be presented for the first time at the readymade bookstore in Gelsenkirchen, where author Alina Hofmann will read from her work.

readymade
Bochumer Str. 108
45886 Gelsenkirchen

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