Dulce Granja Carneiro (Atibaia, São Paulo, 1929 - São Sebastião, São Paulo, 2018). Photographer, poet and journalist. With experience in several areas, she is mainly dedicated to photography, exploring various segments such as portrait, architecture and industry. She is part of one of the first generations of professional women photographers in Brazil.
He actively participated in the cultural life of his hometown between the 1940s and 1950s. With his brother, the novelist André Carneiro (1922-2014), he founded the literary newspaper Tentativa, in 1949, in which names such as Sérgio Milliet (1898- 1966), Cassiano Ricardo (1894-1974), Murilo Mendes (1901-1975), Graciliano Ramos (1892-1953), Carlos Drummond de Andrade (1902-1987). In an annex from the 1950s, he launched, through Clube da Poesia, his first book, Além da Palavra (1953). At the end of the decade, he maintains the column Uma Crônica per Month in the newspaper O Estado de S. Paulo, in which he has articles on literature, poetry, arts, cinema and photography; and another in the women's magazine Lady, for which she also photographs, becoming one of the first Brazilian professionals to work with journalism specializing in fashion.
It was through the organization of a film exhibition in the 1960s that he joined Foto Cine Clube Bandeirante (FCCB), in the city of São Paulo, and began to take a professional interest in photography, which he ventured into as an amateur since childhood. Along with photographers such as Alice Kanji (1918-1992) and a German Gertrude Altschul (1904-1962), she is part of the first group of women to attend the FCCB. In 1990, disenchanted with photography, she sold her house in São Paulo, her rolleiflex camera and moved to São Sebastião, on the north coast of São Paulo, but before that she destroyed her entire file of photos and texts in order to erase her trajectory - which opens an irreparable gap in the history of Brazilian photography.