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German LorcaA Procura de Emprego, 1948 / c.1970 Silver gelatin on paper46 x 34.5 cmEd. 3

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German LorcaChuva na Barão - Homem, 1952 / c.1980 Silver gelatin on paper35 x 46 cmEd. 2

German Lorca (São Paulo, Brazil, b. 1922) studied accountancy at the Academic Lyceum of São Paulo and worked at his own accounting business until 1952. He joined Foto Cine Clube Bandeirante in 1949 and the influence of other members of the club encouraged his decision to devote himself to photography as a profession. In 1952 he closed his accounting business and opened his first photo studio. The first few years were really productive and some of Lorca’s most famous photographs belongs in fact to this period. Among them: Malandragem (1949), À Procura de Emprego (1951), Apartamentos (1952).

The debates around photographic experimentation held at the Clube are noticeable in Lorca’s early works, especially in his first street scenes in which a subjective component is already evident. Innovative interpretations revealed in his photographic experiments became even more clear through the abstract compositions of the following years. In 1954 he was named official photographer for the celebration of the fourth centenary of the foundation of São Paulo. His themes range from more social issues to the compositional treatment through chiaroscuro. His participation in the activities of Foto Cine Club Bandeirante, as well as his subsequent professional career, has made him one of the most important contemporary photographers in Brazil. Lorca’s works are included in important collections worldwide, such as Banco Itaú (São Paulo), Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP), Pinacoteca do Estado (São Paulo), Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (Miami), and MoMA (New York).

Lorca is the only still living member of FCCB and currently lives and works in São Paulo, Brazil.

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German Lorca


German LorcaVista Zona Cerealista para o Centro, 1954 / c.1970 Silver gelatin on paper34.5 x 46 cmEd. 3

German LorcaVista Noturna do Arouche para o Centro, 1960 / c.1970 Silver gelatin on paper33.5 x 44.5 cmEd. 3

German LorcaMenina na Chuva, 1952/1980 Silver gelatine on paper 46.5 x 36.5 cmEd. 4

German LorcaRua XV de Novembro, 1954 / c.1970 Silver gelatin on paper48 x 36 cmEd. 2

Marcel Giró


Marcel Giró (Badalona, Spain, 1913 - Mira-sol, 2011), was the son of a Catalan industrialist and the second of six children. He studied at the National School of Badalona and later at the Industrial School of Terrassa, while working at the family factory. Since his youth he was fond of mountain trekking and photography. At the beginning of the Spanish Civil War he enlisted as a volunteer to defend the Republic. In 1937, he decided to exile first in France, then in Colombia, where he reunited with his wife Palmira Puig (Spain, 1912-1978), and finally in Brazil. There he turned his photography hobby into a profession and in São Paulo he opened his first studio, Estúdio Giró. He soon became a prominent exponent of the so called Escola Paulista and an active member of the Foto Cine Clube Bandeirante in the 50's. Giró was considered a great modernist with special interest in chiaroscuro, abstraction and the search of new forms, in which his simple but powerful compositions predominate. At the end of the ‘70s, after the death of his wife Palmira, he left professional photography and returned to Spain settling in his native Catalonia and continuing with personal photographic projects.

The quality and exceptional nature of Marcel Giró’s vintage prints have secured him a place in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA, New York), Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP), Itaú Cultural (São Paulo) and the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya (MNAC, Barcelona), among others.

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Marcel Giró Sem título, c. 1970C-Print on Kodak paper40 x 30 cm

Marcel GiróSem título, c. 1970C-Print on Kodak paper27 x 40 cm


Marcel Giró Textura, 1961Vintage. Silver gelatin on paper 24.5 x 40 cm

Marcel Giró Moderno, c. 1960 Vintage. Silver gelatin on paper40 X 30 cm

Marcel Giró Abstração, c. 1960 Vintage. Silver gelatin on paper 39 x 22 cm


Palmira Puig-Giró

Palmira Puig-Giró Desconfiado, c. 1950 Vintage. Silver gelatin on paper 40 x 30 cm

Palmira Puig-Giró (Tàrrega, Spain, 1912-Barcelona, Spain, 1978) was the daughter of a deputy to the Spanish courts, growing up alongside eight brothers in a family with strong cultural and intellectual traditions. She studied commercial expertise and in 1942 she married by proxy Marcel Giró (Spain, 1913-2011), who had previously emigrated to South America to escape the Franco dictatorship; Palmira traveled to Colombia the same year to meet him. Subsequentelly they moved together to Brazil where she developed an interest in photography eventually joining the Foto Cine Clube Bandeirante in 1956.

Palmira went on to create a body of modernist photography within the FCCB that underscores her female and immigrant perspective during the transition from Pictorialist to modernist photography in the postwar years. In 1978, after closing their photography studio (Estúdio Giró), Marcel and Palmira decided to return to Spain where she passed away almost immediately upon arrival. The RocioSantaCruz gallery is actively collaborating with Palmira Puig-Giró's heirs to document and organise her archive that has lain, until now, largely undiscovered.

In 2016, the Museo de Arte de São Paulo (MASP) included a photograph by her in the exhibition dedicated to the Colección Foto Cine Clube Bandeirante. In Europe, she was presented for the first time and exclusively during the Paris Photo Fair in 2018 in the RocioSantaCruz's booth.


Palmira Puig-Giró Sin título, c. 1950 Vintage. Silver gelatin on paper 40 x 30 cm


Palmira Puig-Giró Sin título, c. 1950 Vintage. Silver gelatin on paper 40 x 30 cm

Palmira Puig-Giró Estudo, c. 1950 / 2019Reprint, 12 pigmented inks on Hahnemühle Photo Rag paper (100% cotton) of 308 gr. 30 x 40 cmEd. 15

Palmira Puig-Giró Vendedora de flores, c. 1950 Vintage. Silver gelatin on paper 40 x 30 cm


Rubens Teixeira Scavone

Rubens Teixiera Scavone La Caravelle, 1955 Vintage. Silver gelatin on paper 40 x 30 cm

Rubens Teixiera Scavone Papoula, 1952Vintage. Silver gelatin on paper 37 x 25 cm

Rubens Teixeira Scavone (Itatiba, Brazil, 1925 - São Paulo, Brazil, 2007) was a writer and a pioneer of science fiction in Brazil, who wan the Jabuti Award in the romance category in 1973. He was the president of the Academia Paulista de Letras and published articles on art and literature; he also worked as a lawyer and professor. In addition to his successful literary activity, Scavone was one of the most outstanding representatives of the so-called Escola Paulista, having frequently participated in several international photography salons. He was an active memeber of Foto Cine Clube Bandeirante in the 1950s and 1960s and during this time his work was published regularly in catalogs and specialized magazines.

Scavone had an inclination toward abstraction and his work is a result of a thorough investigation into the effects of light, contrasts, geometric lines and forms. His photographs form part of the collection of the Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP).

The RocioSantaCruz gallery is actively working on the rediscovery of the work of Scavone, collaborating with the heirs of the artist in the cataloging and organization of the archive, practically unexplored until now.



Rubens Teixiera Scavone Secando ao sol, 1953 Vintage. Silver gelatin on paper 30 x 40 cm

Rubens Teixiera Scavone O Muro, 1956-1957 Vintage. Silver gelatin on paper 30 x 40 cm

Rubens Teixiera Scavone Cristal, 1952Vintage. Silver gelatin on paper 30 x 40 cm

Nicolás Combarro

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Nicolás Combarro (La Coruña, Spain 1979) is a photographer, documentary filmmaker and curator, who studied audiovisual communication at the Complutense University of Madrid between 2000 and 2006. His first exhibition was hosted at the Butzlab Hall in Hamburg in 2005.

Combarro currently lives and works in Madrid, Spain.

Nicolás CombarroST (Arquitectura espontánea). Fotografía pintada IV, 2017Acrylic painted photograph30 x 42 cmEd. 7

As a documentary filmmaker, he produced in 2017 Alberto García-Alix: the shadow line, selected at the San Sebastían Film Festival. Combarro is also a professor in the European Master of Photography at the European Institute of Design (Madrid) and has taught courses, workshops and conferences in Kassel (Photobook festival), Mexico City (CCEMx), New York (Instituto Cervantes) and Sao Paulo (SESC, CCESP), among others.

Nicolás CombarroST (Arquitectura espontánea). Croquis II, 2017Collage, photography and drawing42 x 32 cmEd. 7

As a photographer, he has exhibited his work at the Maison Européene de la Photographie (Paris), CGAC (Centro Gallego de Arte Contemporáneo, Santiago de Compostela), the Khwoon Gallery (Seoul), the Contemporary Art Museum of Vigo (MARCO) or the Caixaforum (Barcelona). He has participated in the projects Re_construcción in the Kreativlabor (Munich), and Arquitectura de Resistencia II: Autoconstrucción in the OCEMx of Mexico City.

As a curator, he has worked with authors such as Alberto García-Alix, Andres Petersen and Miguel Ángel Campano for institutions such as the Museum Reina Sofia (Madrid), the Rencontres Internationales de Arles (France), the Maison de la Photographie of Moscow, CFMAB (Mexico) or the Maison Européene de la Photographie in Paris.

Nicolás CombarroST (Arquitectura espontánea). Fotografía color I, 2017Photograph30 x 42 cmEd. 7


Nicolás CombarroST (Arquitectura espontánea). Fotografía color III, 2017Photograph42 x 30 cmEd. 7

Nicolás CombarroST (Arquitectura espontánea). Fotografía pintada I, 2017Acrylic painted photograph30 x 42 cmEd. 7

Nicolás CombarroST (Arquitectura espontánea). Croquis III, 2017Collage, photography and drawing42 x 30 cmEd. 7

Nicolás CombarroST (Arquitectura espontánea). Fotografía pintada II, 2017Acrylic painted photograph30 x 42 cmEd. 7

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