As part of the Photoquai festival, the Maison Européenne de la Photographie is showing through November 13, Candomblé by Brazilian photographer José Medeiros. Twenty five silver prints taken from a reportage about the Africo-Brazilian religious initiation ceremony candomblé in the city of Bahia. Taken in 1951 and published by the magazine O Cruzeiro and entitled Noivas dos deuzes sanguinarios (The wedding of Bloodthirsty Gods).

Parallel to the MEP exhibition, the Maison de l’Amérique Latine
of Paris is running a retrospective of José Medeiros’ work entitled José Medeiros Brazilian Chronicles through December 3, 2011.

Since 1990, Napolitan photographer Vincenzo Castella has been taking large format panoramic color “portraits” of cities including Naples, Milan, Rouen, Caen, Le Havre, Helsinki, Berlin, Ramallah and Jérusalem. The MEP is presenting Turin and the new National Car Museum.

Bernard Perrine
Bernard.Perrine1@orange.fr

José Medeiros
Candomblé

Vincenzo Castella
Une collection Turin et le Musée national de l'automobile

Until January 8, 2012

Maison Européenne de la Photographie
5/7 rue de Fourcy
75004 Paris
+ 33 (0)1 44 78 75 00
Wednesday through Sunday

Publication

José Medeiros, Chroniques brésiliennes
Editions Hazan
Textes de Elise Jasmin, Sérgio Burgi, Milton Guran, Samuel Titan Jr et Sérgio Augusto.
22,5 x 27 cm 240 pages, 250 photographies noir et blanc