Biography
José Araújo de Medeiros (Teresina PI 1921 – L’Aquila, Itália, 1990). Photographer. He took up photography as an amateur around 1937, in his hometown. In 1939, he moved with his family to Rio de Janeiro, where he worked as a civil servant for the Post and Telegraph Company and the National Department of Coffee. In this period, he portrayed artists in a makeshift home studio and worked as a free-lance photographer for the magazines Tabu [Taboo] and Rio. In 1946, the French photographer Jean Manzon (1915-1990) invited him to join the staff of the magazine O Cruzeiro [The Crux], where he worked until 1962. In 1957, he published the book Candomblé, the first to document in pictures this Afro-Brazilian religion. Together with Flávio Damm (1928), he ran the photo agency Imagem [Image], from 1962 to 1965. Afterwards, he began working as a cinematographer, as well as directing short-films and the feature Parceiros da Aventura [Partners in adventure], 1979. He photographed some classics of Brazilian cinema, like A Falecida [The dead woman], 1965, of Leon Hirszman (1937-1987); Xica da Silva, 1976, of Cacá Diegues (1940); and Memórias do Cárcere [Memories of prison], 1983, of Nelson Pereira dos Santos (1928). In the late 1980s, he taught photography at the International School of Cinema of San Antonio de Los Baños, in Habana, Cuba. In 1986, the Fundação Nacional de Arte (Funarte) [National Art Foundation] held the retrospective exhibition José Medeiros, 50 Anos de Fotografia [José Medeiros, 50 years of photography], in Rio de Janeiro, and published a book on his work by the same title.
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