Posts tagged with "photography"

We’re going to do a reading comprehension with a really cool feature from Estado de São Paulo’s “Olhar Sobre o Mundo” blog. It’s a post featuring a fantastic photo series of windows in the city of São Paulo.

Read the article, Janelas paulistanas, and the accompanying text here.

Excerpt: “Uma viagem poética pelas fachadas da cidade. Um mosaico de cores formas e contrastes. A São Paulo antiga, a São Paulo moderna, os bairros de classe média, os bairros da periferia. Janelas decadentes, janelas enfeitadas, janelas coloridas, janelas divertidas. Janelas com gente, janelas com bichos, janelas com plantas, janelas desabitadas. Janelas, janelas, janelas, janelas… Janelas por onde São Paulo é vista. Janelas por onde olhamos São Paulo, através deste ensaio do repórter fotográfico Hélvio Romero.”

Questions:

1. What are some of the types of windows featured, based on the paragraph above?

2. How do you say “facade” in Portuguese?

3. What is Marginal Pinheiros near?

Answers after the jump.

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Until June, you can access one of the most spectacular collections of Brazilian photography with works dating from the late 1800s to the 1980s, taken by professionals and amateurs alike. The majority of the collection was taken in Rio de Janeiro but there are sections in other states, like São Paulo. The collection is organized by the Instituto Moreira Salles, which has excellent museums and cultural centers in four Brazilian cities. The photography collection, organized by the Rio museum, includes around 10,000 photographs, which are now available online.

Some of the photographers include Marc Ferrez, Marcel Gautherot, Carlos Moskovics, José Medeiros, Madalena Schwartz, Vincenzo Pastore, and Claude Levi-Strauss.

Click here to access the photography index, and click on the names on the right for each collection.

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