16/2 – Solo Exhibition: Foto Cine Clube Bandeirante in São Paulo, SP.
18/2 – Lectures on “Análise Harmônica de um Retângulo” at the Foto Cine Clube Bandeirante in São Paulo, SP.
Earliest experiments in abstraction are introduced in the Forma series.
Elected member of the Associate Montreal Salon of Photography, Canada.
Awards: First place – Concurso do SAPS ( Serviço de Alimentação da Previdência Social) – Rio de Janeiro; Diplome D’Honneur – Salon International D’Art Photographique – Périgueux, France; Certificate of Merit, for his photograph O túnel [The Tunnel] – Rochester, United States; Honor Award – 17th Annual Exhibition of Photography – Whittier, CA; Certificate of Merit for his photograph of Menino à janela [Boy at the Window] – 18th South African Salon of International Photography – Johannesburg, South Africa; 3rd place, with the photograph Um que passa [Passer-by] and 4th place Simbólico [Symbolic] – III Salão do Foto Clube Minas Gerais; Honorary Diploma – II Salão de Arte Fotográfica de Jaboticabal – São Paulo; Certificate of Merit, with the photograph O túnel [The Tunnel] – Lea Valley Photographic Society – U.S.A.
Articles published:
On Entomology
Question of the type species of Amplypterus Hübner, 1819, in Opinion 275. | Opinions and Declarations International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, 6 (7): 87-87, Sept. 10. | An historical account of the generic name Aplypterus Hübner, 1819, in Opinion 275. | Opinions and Declarations International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, 6 (7): 87-90, Sept. 10.
On Photography
Fotografias de flores com luz artificial. Flores do Brasil, São Paulo, Sociedade Brasileira de Floricultura, 1(1): 24-31, Summer 1954. | Discurso proferido na abertura de sua exposição retrospectiva no Foto Cine Clube Bandeirante. Boletim Foto Cine, São Paulo, Foto Cine Clube Bandeirante, 8(88): 14-15, June. | Algumas fotografias de fantasias decorativas com flores. Flores do Brasil, São Paulo, Sociedade Brasileira de Floricultura, 1(2): 19-28, Sept. | Mais alguma fantasias fotográficas com flores. Flores do Brasil, São Paulo, Sociedade Brasileira de Floricultura, 1(3): 16-23, Jan.