Diagonal Function

Geraldo de Barros was a Brazilian photographer and graphic designer whose formal experiments in the 1950s anticipated much of modernist visual culture. Working in São Paulo during the postwar period, he developed a distinctive approach to photomontage and abstraction that drew from both European constructivism and indigenous Brazilian design traditions. His work bridged photography, graphic design, and printmaking, treating the photograph as a malleable compositional field rather than a documentary record.

São Paulo, Brazil