Studiolo

‘Studiolo’ is an Italian Renaissance term for a private office, a personal refuge for contemplation and study, where humanists surrounded themselves with their books, works of art and objects of inspiration. In this room of the museum, I put some of my own studiolo production. These are studies and reflections on themes related to photography.

  • The Invention of Photography and Modernity

    The text analyzes the invention of photography through its main protagonists and the way in which the project as a whole was part of the trend towards a disenchantment of the world and a redefinition of our relationship with nature.

  • Naturalism in Renaissance art

    The text analyzes how the desire for more drama in religious images and the emergence of Humanism in 13th century Europe converged, in such different ways, to an idea of naturalistic art as intended in the Renaissance.

  • The story of the Lerebours

    Article with a brief history of the Lerebours et Secrétan house as an example of the transformations brought about by the bourgeois and scientific revolution in new forms of social ascension.

  • A little story of images

    A reflection on our relationship with images from an lived experience in which an affective reference comes and goes between past and present, painting and photography.

  • The Cottingley Fairies

    Two children photographed fairies in 1917 in England. The famous spiritualist Arthur Conan Doyle, author of Sherlock Holmes, saw the beginning of a new era of communication with parallel worlds. In this article, Cottingley’s fairies are the pretext for a reflection on the authenticity of images.

  • Musée Nicéphore Niépce

    Review from a visit made in 2017 to the permanent collection with focus on the “Discovery room”, that features the contribution of Niépce to the invention of photography.

  • Pinhole, where truth, beauty and goodness meet

    Pinhole is a photographic technique that employs most of the times a home made camera in different degrees of improvisation and roughness. Matchboxes, shoeboxes and whatever boxes and containers are sort of starting point for those projects. The photographer bricoleur may also start from scratch by cutting cardboards and assembling his camera with adhesive tape. There are…

  • Popular portrait, at peace with fantasy

    Popular portrait, at peace with fantasy It allows plenty of good insights the exhibition, Retrato Popular, do vernáculo ao espetáculo, (Popular Portrait, from vernacular to spectacle) on show at SESC Belenzinho – São Paulo, since May 6 and ending July 31, 2016. First by providing an encounter of popular art, that is made for straight consumption as it is,…

  • Alternative processes in photography

    Alternative processes in photography When we think about alternative processes in photography, what comes to our minds, is a sort of brownish prints showing cloudy images, because they were produced the way it was in the infancy of photography. Many people associate this kind of roughness to constrains given by early phases of film and…