In the 1940s, Brazil underwent a profound transformation. Seizing the political, social and aesthetic potential of the medium, a new generation of photographers focused on modernist architecture and its soft lines, botanical motifs with contrasting light and shadow, inventive experiments and perspective games with a taste for abstraction. Through the work of 33 artists, the book sheds light on a daring generation that placed Brazil at the forefront of the international avant-garde movement.

The country was industrialising, opening up internationally, welcoming a large European diaspora fleeing Nazism, and becoming fertile ground for the artistic avant-garde. Echoing this effervescence, a new generation of photographers seized the medium to accompany the aesthetic and cultural upheavals of their time. As part of the movement that saw the birth of Oscar Niemeyer's architecture and vision of the modern city, Novo cinema and Bossa Nova, six figures contributed to the emergence of a new photography: Geraldo de Barros, German Lorca, Gertrudes Altschul, Marcel Giró, José Oiticica Filho and Thomaz Farkas. A text by Marcella Legrand Marer and Helouise Costa, co-curators of the exhibition presented at the Rencontres d'Arles, introduces the book and looks back at the three high points of Brazilian modernism. The visual corpus is complemented by two essays by Rafael Cardoso, art historian and writer, and Julieta Pestarino, anthropologist, art historian and curator.

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