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José Medeiros. Chroniques brésiliennes

directed by Sergio Burgi and Elise Jasmin

His name is not well known but it represents, as much as that of media famous Pierre Verger, a Brazil long gone by: the Brazil of right after the war, that of Getulio Vargas, of the Maracanazo (the terrible loss in the World Final Soccer Cup in 1950), of the beginning of the Carnival fashion at a world scale. José Medeiros (1921-1990) created his most beautiful subjects very early in life, for the magazine, O Cruzeiro, financed by press mogul Assis Chateaubriand, who gave himself the means to produce ambitious reports, similar to those of Vu or Life. Here we have some pioneer series on the Amazon Indians and of Mato Grosso (as of 1949), on the rites of “candomblé”, on the small tribe of the Nordeste or simply on the beach life at Rio de Janeiro and the society life at the Jockey Club. At the age of 40, Medeiros abandoned press photography and turned towards the cinema, where he was the assistant to great directors such as Carlos Diegues. His decisive moment had passed, he is back today thanks to a lucky rediscovery…


José Medeiros. Chroniques brésiliennes, directed by Sergio Burgi and Elise Jasmin, Hazan publishing house, 2011, 249 p., 35 €.

José Medeiros. Chroniques brésiliennes - directed by Sergio Burgi and Elise Jasmin


Review published in the newsletter #232 - from 27 October 2011 to 2 November 2011

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