Maria Lamas and Her Women at Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation

Maria Lamas and Her Women at Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation

 Imagem: Exposição As Mulheres de Maria Lamas, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian.

The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation hosts the first exhibition of Maria Lamas’s photography in Portugal. A multifaceted figure, Lamas worked as a journalist, writer, educator, researcher, translator and photographer, not forgetting her human and civil rights activism during Portugal’s dictatorial Estado Novo regime. Her contribution is now celebrated with the exhibition Maria Lamas and Her Women, which will be on show in the Gulbenkian Art Library lobby until 28th May.

Boasting a selection of 67 of her photographs, mostly small vintage prints (8 x 6 cm to 14 x 18 cm), as well as a number of enlargements, the exhibition features additional images of the time taken by other photographers that can be found in the book Mulheres do Meu País (Women of My Country) from 1948 by Lamas. Maria Lamas and Her Women also includes personal objects, such as a portrait painted by Júlio Pomar in 1954, and a plaster bust sculpted by Júlio de Sousa in 1929. There is also a section dedicated to her literary and journalistic work, which includes first edition copies of her most important books, children's literature, poetry, fiction and some translation.

 Imagem: Exposição As Mulheres de Maria Lamas, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian.

To complement the exhibition, the Foundation will produce a bilingual catalogue (Portuguese and English), featuring not only Lamas’s photographs from the exhibition, but also texts written by Jorge Calado, Alexandre Pomar, Raquel Henriques da Silva and Alice Vieira.

Catálogo bilingue (português e inglês) da exposição As Mulheres de Maria Lamas

 Imagem: Exposição As Mulheres de Maria Lamas, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian.