Geraldo de Barros, 1923-1998 Fotoformas

At the end of the 1940s Geraldo de Barros sparked controversy in Sao Paulo with his photographic experiments. At the same time it was these works which secured him a scholarship to study at the Ecole Superieure des Beaux Arts in Paris. He developed valuable international contacts to protagonists such as Henri Cartier-Bresson, Brassai, Vieira da Silva and Francois Morellet. Returning to Brazil, de Barros became one of the leading artists in the area of concrete art. His photographic oeuvre was brought back into the limelight in the 1980s by his daughter who inspired de Barros to continue his experiments.