Taken by Marcel Gautherot around 1955.
Gautherot, born in 1910, was a French-Brazilian photographer. Originally studying architecture, he eventually moved into Photography. Inspired by Jorge Amado’s novel Jubiabá, he toured the Brazilian Amazon and settled in Rio de Janeiro in 1940. Here, he worked on photographic documentation projects for the recently created Serviço do Patrimônio Histórico e Artístico Nacional, now the Instituto do Patrimônio Histórico e Artístico Nacional.
His visually stunning Building Brasilia was recently re-released commemorating the 50th anniversary of the founding of Brasilia.
Gautherot passed away in 1996. His collection of 25000 was acquired by the Instituto Moreira Salles.
Pier Maua
Most commonly known as Pier Maua, the actual name of the pier is Pier Oscar Weinschenck, named after a former prefect of the city of Petrópolis, while also the engineer responsible for the extension of Rio’s port in the 1940s.
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