Geraldo de Barros

Design as ethics

Geraldo de Barros was a Brazilian artist who worked across photography, painting, design, and concrete art. His groundbreaking photo series Fotoformas uses montage, cuts, and experimental darkroom techniques to generate geometric abstraction from urban scenes.

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He later co-founded design collectives and furniture cooperatives, embedding modernist principles into everyday material culture.

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Geraldo de Barros was a Brazilian concrete and experimental photographer known for geometric abstraction and modernist design work.

Geraldo de Barros was a Brazilian artist known for experimental photography and concrete abstraction, merging modernist form with urban observation.

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