Thursday, June 7, 2012

Pierre Verger


07.06.2012 21:59

A quick entry after a pretty chill day. We were supposed to spend the holiday, Corpus Christi, boating around the bay but got rained out so instead I checked out a few museums and spent lots of time chatting with my house mom, Helena (pictured below). In an earlier post I mentioned Carybé, a renown Brazilian artist who captured Bahia in the mid-twentieth century. In the same era, a photographer named Pierre Verger did very much the same thing. French by birth, he came to Salvador to discover a “little Africa,” and in a way that no other photographer could do he preserved moments of candomblé, work by the sea, dances, music, faces, and expressions. See his work here.


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