In 1939, a group of amateur photographers in São Paulo, Brazil, founded the Foto (later Foto-Cine) Clube Bandeirante. Its members—lawyers, scientists, bankers—took pictures of subjects, ranging from architecture to the natural world (“Filigree,” above, was made by Gertrudes Altschul, circa 1952), with an experimental rigor rivalling that of any avant-garde artist. “Fotoclubismo: Brazilian Modernist Photography, 1946-1964,” at moma (through Sept. 26), surveys the club’s work, beginning the year that it launched the influential magazine Boletim.
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