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Interior façade of the São Borja building, Rio de Janeiro, RJ. Brazil

Thomas Farkascirca 1945

 Instituto Moreira Salles

Instituto Moreira Salles
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Through a partnership with the artist himself, the IMS took on the protection and preservation of the photographic works of Thomaz Farkas, comprising over 34,000 images that range from 1940-1990. A multifaceted figure who also made a profound mark on the Brazilian cultural scene as a businessman – at the head of Fotoptica, the company inherited from his father – and a man of cinema, Farkas composed a vast photographical oeuvre with a strong authorial voice that would be appreciated as a whole only late in his life, in the 1990s.
Farkas’ main influence at the time was the American movement of direct photography, represented by such figures as Paul Strand (1890-1976), Ansel Adams (1902-1984), and Edward Weston (1886-1964), with whom Farkas came to correspond. His main subject in the 1940s was the city of São Paulo as it underwent an accelerated process of modernization; he tackled it in search of new and unexpected compositions, presaging the constructivist art of the next decade with his geometric abstractionism. At the same time, he tried out surrealist images.

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  • Title: Interior façade of the São Borja building, Rio de Janeiro, RJ. Brazil
  • Creator: Farkas, Thomaz
  • Creator Lifespan: 1924-10-17 - 2011-03-25
  • Creator Nationality: Hungarian
  • Creator Gender: Male
  • Creator Death Place: São Paulo, SP. Brazil
  • Creator Birth Place: Budapeste. Hungary
  • Date: circa 1945
  • Location: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  • Physical Dimensions: w46 x h46 cm (primary support)
  • Provenance: Thomaz Farkas collection / Instituto Moreira Salles
  • Type: Photography
  • Rights: Thomaz Farkas collection / Instituto Moreira Salles
  • External Link: http://ims.uol.com.br/hs/thomazfarkas/thomazfarkas.html
  • Medium: Gelatin silver print
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