Walter Firmo
Subtitle: no verbo do silêncio a síntese do grito
By: Sergio Burgi [org.].
Contributors: Instituto Moreira Salles
Publisher: Instituto Moreira Salles
Published: 2022
Place of publication: São Paulo
Language: por
Number of pages: 251
ISBN-13: 9786588251065
Subjects: Exhibitions; Artistic Photography; Pictorial works
Other titles: No verbo do silêncio a síntese do grito
Work titles: Walter Firmo (Instituto Moreira Salles)
Description: Photographic review of work of Walter Firmo (b. Brazil 1937). Walter Firmo: no verbo do silêncio a síntese do grito. make a peculiar theory of photography, which knew how to build as a critique of the notion of photographic reality and objectivity, fighting any claim of a photographic neutrality in a world where so little neutrality exists. In each photograph, Firmo invites the viewer to 'immediate reflection on the reality displayed and on the very act of photography', aware that "the power of the gaze must influence people because the act of photographing has to be political, not a mere instant chance.''. The catalogue was produced on the occasion of the exhibition and brings the works dispayed in the exhibition, in addition to texts authored by Firmo himself, João Fernandes (IMS Artistic Director), and the curators Sergio Burgi and Janaina Damaceno Gomes. The book also features an interview of the photographer in conversation with the curators and the journalist Nabor Jr., editor of the magazine O Melenick. Segundo Ato, in addition to a chronology of the photographer signed by Andrea Wanderley.
Notes: Published on the occasion of the exhibition held from April 30 to Septermber 10, 2022 at IMS Paulista, in São Paulo, Brazil.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Walter Firmo: desajustar a realidade, reajustar o Brasil / João Fernandes; title: No verbo do silêncio a sintese do grito / Sergio Burgi; title: Amar a negritude / Janina Damaceno Gomes; title: Um plantador de atmosferas / Walter Firmo; title: Portfólio negra cor / Aura de Luz; title: Síntese do grito; title: Encantamentos e experimentações; title: Primeiras imagens; title: "O fotógrato é um parador do tempo / Walter Firmo em conversa com Janaina Damaceno Gomes, Nabor Jr. e Sergio Burgi; title: Breve cronologia de Walter Firmo / Andrea Wanderley; title: Sobre as obras em exposição.