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PHOTOGRAPHY - PORTUGAL
Portugal 1934, Edição do Secretariado da Propaganda Nacional, 1934

11 November 2015, 13:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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PHOTOGRAPHY - PORTUGAL

Portugal 1934, chromolithographic frontispiece, 24 leaves of tinted reproductions of photomontages, 4 of these folding, one gathering loose, publisher's orange printed wrappers, dampstaining to rear wrapper just affecting outer edges of some leaves, folio (443 x 318mm.), Edição do Secretariado da Propaganda Nacional, 1934

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A striking photomontage production in a similar vein to Rodchenko's constructivist work in the USSR. Issued as an official propaganda book for the 'Estado Novo', the right-wing regime inaugurated by António de Oliveira Salazar in 1933, it includes photographs by the most famous Portuguese photographers of the time including Alvão, A. Rasteiro, João Martins and others.


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