Marcel Gautherot

About this book

The photographic work of Marcel Gautherot (b. Paris, 1910 - d. Rio de Janeiro 1996) published on the occasion of the retrospective exhibition in Maison Européenne de La Photographie, Paris, from June to August of 2016, with texts by Michel Frizot, great historian of photography, Jacques Leenhardt, sociologist and art critic, as well as texts by the organizers of the publication, Samuel Titan Jr. and Sergio Burgi, and by Lorenzo Mammì, curator curator and event programmer of the IMS. The publication has 256 images with a range of topics that occupied Gautherot since his formation period in France, his trip to Mexico in 1936, and the beginning of his career in Brazil. His work played a key role in building the modern representation of Brazil, both here and abroad.