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A Hora E O Lugar
"The time and place", comprises five photographic essays carried out between 1919 and 1974 by photographers who are part of the IMS: Alice Brill, Guilherme Santos, Jorge Bodanzky, Luciano Carneiro and Otto Stupakoff. Very different among themselves, but with the intention to record the events on the spur of the moment: from the Carnival to the battlefield; from Sao Paulo in development to the Amazon; from Brazil to the far East.
Marc Ferrez / Robert Polidori
"Marc Ferrez's Rio presents a broad and profound reading of the author's photographic work on the city of Rio de Janeiro. Together, the images and texts shed light on various seminal aspects of this important photographer, as well as Rio de Janeiro's urban evolution from the late 1800s to the early 20th century--something of special significance in the year in which we celebrate the 450th anniversary of the city's founding. On this occasion, IMS also publishes Rio, by Robert Polidori (Steidl/IMS, 2015), a book that documents the city of Rio de Janeiro between 2002 and 2014."--Volume 1, page 9.
Marcel Gautherot
Marcel Gautherot is regarded by many as one of the most significant French photographers. Yet he is not as well known, and even less published, as some of his contemporaries. The most famous part of his work is the documentation of the construction of the Brazilian capital Brasilia 1958-1960, consisting of around 3,000 images, and also later images he took of this extraordinary place until the 1970s, widely appreciated as a high point of 20th-century architectural photography. Gautherot was born in Paris in 1910. In 1925, when he already was an architect's apprentice, he enrolled in an evening class in architecture at the Ecole Nationale des Arts Decoratifs. He continued his education in arc...
Rio: Marc Ferrez
"Marc Ferrez's Rio presents a broad and profound reading of the author's photographic work on the city of Rio de Janeiro. Together, the images and texts shed light on various seminal aspects of this important photographer, as well as Rio de Janeiro's urban evolution from the late 1800s to the early 20th century--something of special significance in the year in which we celebrate the 450th anniversary of the city's founding. On this occasion, IMS also publishes Rio, by Robert Polidori (Steidl/IMS, 2015), a book that documents the city of Rio de Janeiro between 2002 and 2014."--Volume 1, page 9.
Brasília
The book gathers Brasilia 153 images made by photographer Franco-Brazilian Marcel Gautherot between the years 1958 and mid-1960. The publication also has an unpublished essay by architect and English critic Kenneth Frampton, and an introductory essay by Sergio Burgi, coordinator of the Instituto Moreira Salles photography. With comprehensive academic training in architecture and enthusiast Le Corbusier and Van der Rohe, Marcel Gautherot was near the elite group of Brazilian modernist architects such as Oscar Niemeyer and Lucio Costa Alfonso Reidy, who considered Gautherot as "the artist most of the photographers'. The request for Niemeyer, who had already made important records of works in p...
Cruelty and Utopia
This landmark collection of illustrated essays explores the vastly underappreciated history of America's other cities -- the great metropolises found south of our borders in Central and South America. Buenos Aires, So Paulo, Mexico City, Caracas, Havana, Santiago, Rio, Tijuana, and Quito are just some of the subjects of this diverse collection. How have desires to create modern societies shaped these cities, leading to both architectural masterworks (by the likes of Luis Barragn, Juan O'Gorman, Lcio Costa, Roberto Burle Marx, Carlos Ral Villanueva, and Lina Bo Bardi) and the most shocking favelas? How have they grappled with concepts of national identity, their colonial history, and the cont...
Virtual Orientalism in Brazilian Culture
Orientalist discourses in Brazilian culture are an expression of anxieties about the re-structuring of time and space in the network age. The book examines engagements with Japanese postmodern culture in Brazil, which emerge in relation to the history of Japanese immigration and through a series of European and North American discursive mediations.
Constructing an Avant-Garde
How Brazilian postwar avant-garde artists updated modernism in a way that was radically at odds with European and North American art historical narratives. Brazilian avant-garde artists of the postwar era worked from a fundamental but productive out-of-jointness. They were modernist but distant from modernism. Europeans and North Americans may feel a similar displacement when viewing Brazilian avant-garde art; the unexpected familiarity of the works serves to make them unfamiliar. In Constructing an Avant-Garde, Sérgio Martins seizes on this uncanny obliqueness and uses it as the basis for a reconfigured account of the history of Brazil’s avant-garde. His discussion covers not only widely...
