Ensaio de balé (Ballet Rehearsal)
1947 · Gelatin silver print
12 3/4 × 11 5/16" (32.4 × 28.7 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
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Thomaz Farkas
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WA-00027030
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2
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7
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15
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Photographs from the Museum Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1958–1959
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Abstraction in Photography
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1951
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- MoMA bulk 2026-05-04Tier 1 · Institutional92%
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Thomaz Farkas was a Brazilian photographer and filmmaker whose documentary practice emerged in the postwar period, focused on rural and indigenous communities across Brazil's interior and Amazon region. Working primarily in black and white, he combined photojournalistic rigor with an ethnographic impulse, creating extensive visual archives that document social and environmental conditions. His photographs and films served as both artistic statements and records of communities rarely represented in Brazilian mainstream media.
Source: Moma Bulk 2026 05 04 · Trust score: 92% · Updated 1mo ago
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Museum of Modern Art
New York, US
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