Genevieve Naylor's career began in 1937 when she became one of the first female photojournalists hired by the Associated Press. She would become best known for her photographs taken in Brazil from 1940 to 1943, which comprise a stunning collection of over 1,000 images.
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"In the early 1940s as the conflict between the Axis and the Allies spread worldwide, the U.S. State Department turned its attention to Axis influence in Latin America. As head of the Office of Inter-American Affairs, Nelson Rockefeller was charged with...
... cultivating the region’s support for the Allies while portraying Brazil and its neighbors as dependable wartime partners.
Genevieve Naylor was sent to Brazil in 1940 by Rockefeller’s agency to provide photographs that would support its need for propaganda.
Accompanied by analysis from Robert M. Levine, this selection of Naylor’s photographs offers a unique view of everyday life during one of modern Brazil’s least-examined decades.
Her subjects include the very rich and the very poor, black Carnival dancers, fishermen, rural peasants from the interior and workers crammed into trolleys.
In 1943, upon her return, Genevieve became only the second woman to be the subject of a one-woman show at New York’s Museum of Modern Art.
She served as Eleanor Roosevelt’s personal photographer and, in the 1950s and 1960s became well known for her work in Harper’s Bazaar, primarily as a fashion photographer and portraitist.
She died in 1989, aged 74.
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