Exhibitions detalhe

3 May 1926, Lisbon – 17 December 2019, Sao Paulo

José Fernandes Lemos was a photographer, illustrator, poet, designer, teacher and artistic director of several cultural institutions. He began to paint in oil, on a trip to Berlengas with Marcelino Vespeira. Despite having joined the Surrealist adventure (1949), he left Portugal in opposition to the Salazar regime and settled in São Paulo (Brazil).

His photographic activity left a mark on the history of Surrealism and photography, particularly in 2001 with the attribution of the National Photography Prize. The Museum holds a space for him, where mostly photographs by the author are exhibited, revealing what his lens captured, taking us back more than 50 years, and transporting us to the aesthetic imagination of Surrealist photography and stating his mastery in how he made use of his camera.