Pierre Verger
Subtitle: percursos e memória = journeys and memories
By: [curatoria = curatorship : Priscyla Gomes, Alex Baradel ; tradução : Izabel Burbridge]
Contributors: Burbridge, Izabel, translator; Baradel, Alex, curator; Gomes, Priscyla, curator; Verger, Pierre, 1902-1996; Fundação Pierre Verger; Instituto Tomie Ohtake
Edition: 1a edição.
Publisher: Instituto Tomie Ohtake
Published: 2021
Place of publication: São Paulo
Language: por
Number of pages: 253
ISBN-13: 9786589342120
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation; Catalogs; Photographers; Biography; Indians of South America; Pictorial works; Photography in anthropology; Artistic Photography
Description: In a partnership between the Instituto Tomie Ohtake, the Fundação Pierre Verger, the Fundação Bienal de São Paulo and as part of the 34 Bienal de São Paulo, the exhibition was inaugurated "Pierre Verger: Percursos e Memórias" dedicated to exposing the different documentation of the photographer's trajectory during his main trips. Because it is an unpublished cut and material, the duo of curators - Priscyla Gomes, curator of the Instituto Tomie Ohtake and Alex Baradel, curator of the Fundação Pierre Verger - brings new readings to the production of this exponent photographer. Based on an immersion in his archives, notes, records and writings, the show is the first to feature Pierre Verger as a photographer, researcher, ethnographer and religious leader. In addition to unpublished or rarely shown images, aiming to contextualize his production and relating aspects of the photographer's personal life to the historical context to which he belonged, the show will bring his travel notebooks, national and international publications and periodicals, unpublished letters and texts, negative and studies of enlargements, as well as an iconic documentary co-produced by the photographer and ethnographer, totaling more than 300 items on display. The articulation between image, writing and extensive research resulted in a vast, unknown panorama of the public that recurrently approaches Verger through his most iconic photographs. Between 1932 and 1970, there were decades of travel around the world, passing through Europe, Asia, America and Oceania. The year 1946 marks his arrival in Brazil, a journey that would result in a long stay and the discovery of a universe that would definitely change his life. His arrival began his Afro-Americanist and Africanist research, which provided important developments in his trajectory. Verger also began to record by writing the information collected in his travels between Brazil and Africa. It is in this universe that the photographer and ethnographer concentrated his studies, dedicating decades of his life to yoruba and fon cultures, in addition to their religious diasporas.
Notes: "This catalog was published on the occasion of the exhibition "Pierre Verger: Percursos e Memórias" held at the Instituto Tomie Ohtake from August 13 to November 21, 2021."--Last Page.

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Table of contents: title: Pierre Verger: Percursos e memórias = Journeys and memories / Priscyla Gomes e and Alex Baradel; title: POLINÉSIA = POLYNESY; title: Da liberdade a compromisso: Crepúsculo de uma obra fotográfica = From freedom to commitment: Twilight of a photographic work / Alex Baradel; title: ÁSIA = ASIA; title: ÁFRICA OCIDENTAL = WEST AFRICA; title: Como se fosse como se... (Uma busca pela liberdade) = As if it were as if... (A quest for freedom) / Emo de Medeiros; title: AMÉRICA ANDINA [Peru-Bolívia] = ANDEAN AMERICA [Peru-Bolivia]; title: BRASIL = BRAZIL; title: O Brasil de O Cruzeiro: Faces da cultura popular nas imagens de Pierre Verger = O Cruzeiro's Brazil: Popular culture expressions in Pierre Verger's images / Priscyla Gomes; title: DIEUX D'AFRIQUE = DIEUX D'AFRIQUE; title: Pierre Verger e suas documentações e pesquisas: Entre pessoas e lugares = Pierre Verger and his documentation and research: Between people and places / Angela Lühning; title: FLUXO E REFLUXO = FLUX AND REFLUX; title: Nem bem juntos nem bem separados: Fluxo e refluxo entre africanos abrasileirados e brasileiros africanizados = Neither properly together nor properly apart: Flow and contraflow between brazilianized africans and africanized brazilians / Lilia Moritz Schwarcz; title: Entrevista = Interview / Emmanuel Garrigues; title: Cronologia = Chronology; title: Versão inglesa = English version; title: Fotografias expostas = Photos in exhibition.