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Madalena Schwartz:

The Metamorphoses - Transvestites and Cross-dressers in 1970s São Paulo

Madalena Schwartz (Budapest, 1921-São Paulo, 1993) was a prominent Brazilian photographer of Hungarian descent. A protagonist in São Paulo photography, she stands out for the way she worked the portrait in her work. Active at Foto Cine Clube Bandeirante, and a resident of the Copan building at the epicenter of São Paulo's cultural life in the 1970s, Schwartz dedicated her first full-length essay to the characters she met in the city's nightlife: cross-dressing artists, androgynous men and women, and transvestites, in a group that encompasses from luminaries of the time, such as the singer Ney Matogrosso and the Dzi Croquettes dance troupe, to many figures that today are almost forgotten. The exhibition, which was on show at the IMS Paulista in 2021 and was later presented in Buenos Aires, revisits this part of Schwartz's work, both to recover the characters portrayed by her and to investigate the photographer's profile.

Curators
Gonzalo Aguilar and Samuel Titan Jr.
Beatriz Matuck and Tiê Higashi (assistants)

Itinerancy

Works

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Elke Maravilha, 1983. Photo by Madalena Schwartz / IMS Collection
Ney Matogrosso, 1974. Photo by Madalena Schwartz / IMS Collection
Copan, night view, 1970s. Photo by Madalena Schwartz / IMS Collection
Dzi Croquettes: Benê Lacerda, c. 1974. Photo by Madalena Schwartz / IMS Collection
Dzi Croquettes: Claudio Tovar, Cláudio Gaya, Roberto de Rodrigues and Paulette, c. 1974. Photo by Madalena Schwartz / IMS Collection
Unidentified person, 1970s. Photo by Madalena Schwartz / IMS Collection
Patrício Bisso, 1970s. Photo by Madalena Schwartz / IMS Collection