Cabbage Moths Lay Their Eggs On My Kale: Francisco Afonso Chaves at MNAC, Lisbon

Sunday, 8 January 2017

Francisco Afonso Chaves at MNAC, Lisbon

"THE PARADOXAL IMAGE" at Museu Nacional de Arte Contempornea do Chiaso, Lisbon.

I was delighted to have discovered the stereoscopic photographer and "Azorean naturalist" FRANCISCO AFONSO CHAVES (1857-1926) this week in Lisbon.

A wall text on "seeing landscape from afar":

Some images:

("Sperm Whale", c. 1890)

(An exploration of movement, similar to the experiments in photography by Muybridge)

(The images that most struck me)

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I am originally from Montreal, Canada and now live in Sheffield, UK. I work in children's social care policy. I'm a book worm.

I have a PhD in History of Art from the University of York (UK). My thesis explored the dialogue between modernist photography and abstraction (1914-1930). I examined atmospheres in photographs through a formalist-phenomenological methodology. Feminism/women's art, art in remote places and the intersection of art and ecology are also important to me.

I have a BA at McGill University in Art History and World Cinemas and an MA in History of Art at UCL. My masters thesis focused on the 1967 Fogo Island Challenge for Change documentaries.