#lamerican photographers

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Fernell Franco /Colombian photographer, 1942–2006

Franco was a central player in the experimental arts scene that emerged in Colombia’s Santiago de Cali during the 1970s and his works probed a city in transition. Over 30 years, he focused his lens on Cali’s brothels, billiard halls and brightly painted cafés, its once-grand mansions populated by migrants, and fine buildings from the 1930s and 40s reduced to decaying hulls.

Distinct from his output as a photojournalist, Franco’s work as an artist explored the photograph as an artefact, open to constant revision and modification.

Rather than merely documenting the city, his interior and architectural shots are mined for the lines of geometry, doubled and echoed to kaleidoscopic effect. Patterned tiles and the green baize of the billiard tables are hand-tinted, sections of pitted tarmac are drawn over with black lines, searing day-lit skies are blocked out with inky blurs.

https://thespaces.com/fernell-francos-retrospective-offers-a-snapshot-of-1970s-santiago-de-cali/5/

Fernell Franco, Série Interiores, 1980 © Fundación Fernell Franco, Cali

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Sameer Makarius /Argentinian, born in Egypt, 1924 – 2009

Kavanagh Building under the Fog , 1954

gelatin silver print

© Estate of Sameer Makarius

© Tate, London 2017

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Portraits of American Colony Hotel General Manager Thomas Brugnatelli photographed for Swiss newspaper Le Temps. Photo editor Catherine Rüttimann

Had a pleasure being a small part of this story https://www.letemps.ch/monde/2017/08/04/lamerican-colony-jerusalem-lhotel-paix

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Sebastiao Salgado  /Brazilian, b. 1944

Yamal Peninsula, Siberia, Russia, 2011 - by Sebastião Salgado (1944), Brazilian/French

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Pioneer in abstract photography in Brazil - Geraldo de Barros /Brazilian, 1923-1998

1950s he abandoned his work in photography to focus on concrete art.  Although internationally known for his innovations in photography, de Barros actively worked with the medium only during two periods of his life: 1945-1951, and 1996-1998. In 1977, De Barros returned to geometric art and concepts of concrete art, using Formica as his base material in further exploring industrial design

Fotoformas

Geraldo de Barros