Rosa Gauditano (São Paulo SP 1955)
Photographer.
Between 1974 and 1975, Rosa Jandira Gauditano Studies Journalism at the Faculty of Communication Social Cásper Libero, in São Paulo. He began to photograph professionally in 1977, for the newspaper Versus, and becomes the editor of the periodical. In the early 1980s, he teaches photojournalism at the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo - PUC/SP and works as a freelancer in several publications. During this period, he carries out photo essays with children who live on the streets of the capital of São Paulo and begins the documentation of popular religious festivals in Brazil. In 1984, he works at the Folha de S. Paulo newspaper and, in 1985 and 1986, in Veja magazine. He receives the April Photojournalism Award in 1986. The following year, he founded the Agência Fotograma Fotojournalismo e Documentação, with Ed Viggiani (1958) and Emidio Luisi (1948). In 1989, it established its first contact with indigenous peoples in Altamira, Pará, and, from then on, documents communities of Karajás, Kayapós, Tucanos, Yanomamis, Xavantes, Guaranis and Pankararus Indians. She is the author of the Indian books. The First Inhabitants, 1998, Raízes do Povo Xavante, 2003, and Festas de Fé, 2004. Since 1997, he has run the StudioR agency, working in the areas of advertising, journalism and documentation. In 2004, in partnership with the United Nations Educational, Science and Culture Organization - UNESCO, it created the non-governmental organization Nossa Tribo, dedicated to projects aimed at children's nutrition, book and postal editing.
Commentary Critic
Rosa Gauditano's work is directly linked to her concern with the dissemination of cultural traditions and personal engagement in indigenous causes. His main essays focus on folkloric and religious festivals, such as Bumba-meu-boi, in Vale do Pindaré, Maranhão, and the Festa do Divino, in Pirenópolis, Goiás, and document aspects of the daily life of indigenous peoples in different regions of Brazil.
In the photos of festivities, the framings are frontal and the saturated colors are, in part, a consequence of intense natural light and flat. The aesthetic dimension of the images belongs, above all, to the referent itself - the embroidery, sparkles and props, the mixture of fabrics, prints and colors typical of the clothes used in processions.
The descriptive character also predominates in the records of Indians, in which Rosa Gauditano focuses on aspects of her day-to-day (domestic tasks, handicrafts, hunting, children's games, rituals, etc.) and shows indices that explain the contact of the tribes with the culture of the whites: Indian women wearing a bra, Soda caps incorporated into props, clothes and industrialized objects. The photos ratify the image of "the wild good", characteristic of the romantic iconography of the second half of the 19th century. There are no conflicts in them, the Indians appear in harmony with each other and with nature. This interpretation takes on a political connotation, as it gives positive visibility to populations that have their rights frequently neglected.
Criticism
"The contemporary look at this world of parties is often limited to the exotic, the folkloric or else, in the extreme Opposite, it becomes a cold documentation of anthropological rigor. Rosa Gauditano attends these long-standing popular festivals and is familiar with events from different regions. This allows an emotional complicity with the participants of these games, dances, processions or religious ceremonies. and the respect for human types and rite situations that make their images still show the dignity of an almost lost time. However, thanks to these photos, it is possible to discover that the belief in ancestral truths still pulsates through the interior of Brazil". Xavier de Mendonça
Catalogue of the exhibition Colors and Parties at Galeria Alliance Française
Testimonies
"My main work in photography is to do the documentation of this very unknown country for us. Currently I have worked rescuing the indigenous culture of different peoples through Brazil. I believe that photography is a powerful weapon to make the communication link between our people so little informed about their own reality".
Acerves
Pirelli/Masp Photo Collection - São Paulo SP
Exhibitions Individuals
1998 - São Paulo SP - Chunhantãs: Indigenous women, at Sesc Itaquera
2003 - São Paulo SP - Raízes do Povo Xavante, in the Cultural Complex of Caixa
2003 - São Paulo SP - Individual, in the Cultural Complex of Caixa
Collective exhibitions
1978 - São Paulo SP - Travel, Image and Action Impressions
1979 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 1st Photography Exhibition, at Funarte. Photography Gallery
1984 - Rome (Italy) - Firmato Donna
1984 - São Paulo SP - São Paulo 1984, at the Italian Commerciale Banca
1984 - São Paulo SP - São Paulo Gigante and Int., at CCSP
1985 - São Paulo SP - Self-portrait Brazil, at Fundação Bienal
1986 - The City of São Paulo, at the Brasilian Institute
1988 - Milan (Italy) - 17th Triennial of Milan
1989 - São Paulo SP - Feast of the Divine of São Luís Paraitinga, at Sesc Pompéia
1989 - São Paulo SP - Images of São Paulo, at Masp
1991 - Florianópolis SC - Colors and Parties
1991 - São Paulo SP - Colors and Parties, at Aliança Français
1992 - São Paulo SP - Indigenous Peoples, at the Núcleo Cultura Indígena
1993 - São Paulo SP - 3rd Collection Pirelli/Masp of Photographs, at MASP
1993 - São Paulo SP - Images of the indigenous daily life, in the French alliance
1995 - São Paulo SP - Contacts and confrontations: the Índio and the white, at MIS/SP
1996 - Bogotá (Colombia) - Images of Brazil. Pirelli/Masp Photo Collection, at Casa do Brasil
1996 - Buenos Aires (Argentina) - Imagenes de Brasil. Pirelli/Masp Photography Collection, at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes
1996 - Caracas (Venezuela) - Images from Brazil. Pirelli/Masp Collection of Photographs, at the Contemporary Art Museo of Caracas Sofía Imber
1996 - Curitiba PR - 1st International Biennial of Curitiba, at Solar do Barão
1997 - São Paulo SP - Nossa Tribe, at Casa Fuji of Photography
1998 - São Paulo SP - Amazon, at Itaú Cultural
2004 - São Paulo SP - Song of the Always, at the Latin America Memorial
Source: Itaú cultural
