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- published in portfolio - some of them previously unpublished, sad thoughts. By the first time he couldn't show his work
focusing on the first seven years of the photographer’s career, to someone he had just photographed.
from 1956 to 1962, during which time she developed her own Upon his return to Zurich in Switzerland, Gabriel still felt
aesthetic. The curator of the show and also responsible for moved by this, so he talked to his manager and partner,
the museum’s photography department, Jeff Rosenheim, was entrepreneur and Swiss architect, Thomas Kurer. What is
in Brazil last August during the SP-Arte / Photo and talked known as Tactography is the result of an image printing
about exposure during the event TALKS / Photo: Perspectives, technique called stereolithography - a form of 3D printing
organised by ARTE!Brasileiros: “Diane Arbus enjoyed engaging usually applied in the construction of scale models in
in dialogues, she liked to ‘talk’ with the individuals that she architecture. Through laser printing on special resins that
photographed. In fact, her characters were not as radical as are then submitted to the process of polymerization, this
one might think. She wanted to understand the differences and printing system - which requires chemical treatment for
how we become the people we want to be. How we overcome solidification and fixing of the images - produces high
what we inherited in terms of gender, class, style, and how resolution images and prints them in relief.
we become the person we were not born to be”, he says. And Two series of 12 images each were on display on the walls
that is beautiful. This is what sociology calls culture. Work of MIS. Both series were white and three-dimensional. One
with an individual and make him a social person. It is up to of the series depicts moments of Andrea Boccelli’s concert
the artist to depict this sense of individuality, and that’s what in Istanbul, in September 2015. The other series portraits
she explored in her photographs. And it teaches us to see Brazilian dancer Denis Vieira, who, after graduating from
how we live in this world. the Bolshoi School of Joinville in the southern state of Santa
If it is true that every picture is a self-portrait, possibly Diane Catarina, joined the National Ballet of the Deutsche Opera,
Arbus looked for herself in her portraits. But that’s just a in Berlin, as a soloist dancer. The dancer was photographed
supposition. In fact, Arbus’ photographs give us what all in June 2016 during his performance as a soloist at the
photographs should give us: photographs do not have an Opera Ballet of Zurich.
importance in themselves. It is what photographs communicate The perception of images in relief, as experienced by visually
and what they represent that matters. Arbus has undoubtedly impaired visitors at MIS during the exhibition, may become
done that. Her photographs make us think. Pure provocation. a new form of inclusion.

1 | LADY ON A BUS, N.Y.C. (1957); STRIPPER WITH BARE BREASTS SITTING IN HER 1 | VISITORS TOUCH WORKS FROM GABRIEL BONFIM EXHIBIT AT MUSEU DA IMAGEM
DRESSING ROOM, ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (1961); JACK DRACULA AT A BAR, NEW LONDON, E DO SOM
CONN. (1961)
2 | SEM CHÃO, GABRIEL BONFIM, A PHOTOGRAPHY OF DANCER DENIS VIEIRA,
2 | KID IN A HOODED JACKET AIMING A GUN, N.Y.C. (1957); FEMALE IMPERSONATOR PRINTED USING TACTOGRAPHY TECNIQUE.
HOLDING LONG GLOVES, HEMPSTEAD, L.I. (1959)
PHOTOGRAPHY PUBLISHING | PAGES 104 AND 105

THE ART OF
PHOTOGRAPHY GABRIEL BONFIM | PAGES 102 AND 103
THE EYES OF BOOK MAKING

THE FINGERS ALEXANDRE BELÉM AND GEORGIA QUINTAS WORK HARD AND

PUSH OLHAVÊ TO THE TOP OF THE PUBLISHING MARKET WITH
BRAZILIAN PHOTOGRAPHER BASED IN SWITZERLAND, GABRIEL NEW FOCUS ON CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY
BONFIM BROUGHT TWO OF HIS WORKS TO SÃO PAULO: PHOTO
ESSAYS WITH TENOR ANDREA BOCELLI AND BRAZILIAN DANCER BY SIMONETTA PERSICHETTI
DENIS VIEIRA. BOTH PRINTED IN TACTOGRAPHY
SINCE 2013, year of its official opening, publishing house
BY HÉLIO CAMPOS MELLO Olhavê Editora has published eight books and has been
nominated four times in two years for the prize of best
THE MUSEUM OF IMAGE AND SOUND – MIS, presented photography book at PhotoEspaña - in 2015 with Baches, by
in October, in São Paulo, the exhibition De Fotografia à Montserrat Baches, and Tempo Arenoso, by Elaine Pessoa;
Tactography (From Photography to Tactography), by Gabriel and in 2016 with Branca, by Lígia Jardim, and Vigília, by Katia
Bonfim. Originally from São Paulo, the photographer lived Kuwabara, The company has also presented its publications
and worked in Europe five years ago. Tactography is the term during festivals in Uruguay, Argentina, Chile, Guatemala
coined and registered by the photographer and his Swiss and Portugal. Four books, by photographers Beto Figueroa,
partner, Thomas Kurer. The idea stemmed from a backstage André Conti, Leslie Markus and Jane Paris, as well as a
photo shooting session that happened after a concert of Italian research book by Georgia Quintas, will be published soon.
tenor Andrea Bocelli, in Istanbul. The concert had coincided Other five books are currently in editing stage.
with Bocelli’s elder son, Adam, birthday's (in September) In these three years, the publishing house has been settling
and to celebrate the occasion the tenor gathered his family in the book market. Managed by photographer and journalist
in Turkey. Alexandre Belém and his wife, anthropologist and image
At the end of the photo shoot, Bonfim showed the resulting researcher Georgia Quintas, Editora Olhavê has a well defined
photographs to members of Bocelli’s family that praised the feature to work with its authors: it monitors and develops
work. The fact that Bocelli is visually impaired brought Bonfim the project both from a photographic work standpoint and

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