The exhibition "Correspondences", project that is part of the PlayRoom section, born of the interest to review the conception of the incipient Latin American cities, its modernist character and the look with which these spaces were photographed at the beginning and middle of the last century.

From that starting point and with the fundamental support of the Vasari galleries (Buenos Aires, Argentina) and Luciana Brito (Sao Paulo, Brazil), BAphoto Live artistic director Francisco Medail establishes a dialogue between two central figures in Latin American photography: Gaspar Gasparian (Sao Paulo,1899-1966) y Annemarie Heinrich (Darmstadt, 1912- Buenos Aires, 2005); two artists who despite the physical and generational distance - thirteen years had between them- were part of the same circuit of exhibitions and publications, especially over the decades 40 Y 50.

The main axis of the dialogue that establishes "Correspondences" between these two artists, in addition to the influence that each one had in their respective artistic circles - both Gasparian and Heinrich were members and promoters of the photo clubs of the time-, It has been the path of formation regarding aesthetics that they would later develop.

"Both began their journeys with influences from pictorialism and traditional photography, although they did not delay in transferring their interests towards formal searches and compositional games -explains Medail-. This progressive exploration of angles and lights gave rise to a process of simplification of forms that culminated in what today we call modernist photography ".

Within this language founded by Gasparian and Heinrich, what is striking, unlike European or North American modernist movements, is that it does not emerge as a subversive or critical language, rather it highlights a diverse compendium of elements, as if the negatives were palimpsests where all the speeches of the time are overwritten. In the words of the curator: "They made up that vast body of heterogeneities that characterized the photoclubs at that time. His images circulated in salons and magazines along with traditionalist aesthetics, remnants of pictorialism and advertising exercises ".

It is in this context that the exhibition puts the two artists to talk. A selection of images, interviews, Publications and catalogs made to one and the other independently meet face to face in Correspondences to draw a bridge between two almost identical perspectives and fundamental for the history of photography., and that in life perhaps the other's name was known by some fleeting coincidence in an exhibition in the Brazilian city.