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Chichico Alkmim, photographer

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AUDIO GUIDE

This audio guide was produced for Chichico Alkmim: Photographer, featuring pictures from Diamantina (state of Minas Gerais, Brazil) and its people taken during the first half of the 20th century. Exhibition curated by Eucanaã Ferraz, poet and literature consultant for Instituto Moreira Salles.

The studio and the world

Diamantina, Minas Gerais, c.1910s / IMS Collection

Right, Maria Josephina Netto Alkmim, "Miquita", Chichico Alkmim's wife. Diamantina, Minas Gerais, c.1910s / IMS Collection

Evocation

Students from Colégio Nossa Senhora das Dores. Diamantina, Minas Gerais, c.1920s / IMS Collection

Diamantina, Minas Gerais, undated / IMS Collection

Diamantina, Minas Gerais, c.1920s / IMS Collection

Diamantina, Minas Gerais, c.1920s / IMS Collection

Diamantina

Streetcar; the photographer Assis Horta and two of his brothers appear at the rear of the vehicle. Diamantina, Minas Gerais, 1924 / IMS Collection

Cavalhada Velha Municipal Park, current Praça Doutor Prado. Diamantina, Minas Gerais, 1945 / IMS Collection

The studio outside

Students from Escola Normal Regional Américo Lopes: Nilda Mourão, Dicíola Leão, Zezé Tameirão, Lourdes Queiroga, Conceição Oliveira, Gracíola, Zenília Menezes, Dasdores Duarte, Lourdes Motta, Ester Motta, Dulce Leão, Lourdes César, Dolores Matta, Maria Prado, Stael Jardim and Maria José Santos Leite. Diamantina, Minas Gerais, c.1910s / IMS Collection

João Antônio Ribeiro's American Tailor Shop. Diamantina, Minas Gerais, c.1920s / IMS Collection

"Little angel". Diamantina, Minas Gerais, undated / IMS Collection

Our face

Diamantina, Minas Gerais, c.1940s / IMS Collection

Diamantina, Minas Gerais, c.1930s / IMS Collection

Diamantina, Minas Gerais, c.1930s / IMS Collection
Diamantina, Minas Gerais, c.1930s / IMS Collection

Music box

Euterpe Diamantinense band. Diamantina, Minas Gerais, undated / IMS Collection

About the exhibition

Chichico Alkmim: photographer features over 200 pictures taken by the photographer from the state of Minas Gerais during the first half of the 20th century. Chichico Alkmim (1886-1978) got settled in Diamantina, Minas Gerais in 1912 and set up his definitive studio in 1919. In contrast to many photographers with studio in the hinterlands of Brazil at the time, self-taught Chichico never limited his work to portraying the bourgeoisie. He photographed weddings, baptisms, funerals, popular and religious festivities, landscapes, street views and the residents. The exhibition rounds up the different phases of the photographer's trajectory. More than 100 glass negatives can be viewed through a glass panel, as well as original objects from Chichico's photo lab.