Gaspar Gasparian (Brazilian, 1899-1966)

Born in São Paulo in 1899, Gaspar Gasparian was a textile industrialist and successful business man with interests in a diverse range of ventures. It was not until the early 1940s that Gasparian turned to photography. After a short Pictorialist phase, he joined the Foto Cine Club Bandeirante in São Paulo in 1942, which included other photographers such as Thomaz Farkas and Geraldo de Barros.  Gasparian experimented with various ways of structuring the photographic image such as playing upon the geometrical character of architectural and urban motifs. In 1950 he moved away from the Foto Cine Club Bandeirante and co-founded the O Grupo dos Seis with five artists including Angelo Francisco Nuti and Ricardo Belinazzi. 

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