The photographer Júlio Bernardo, 97, from Portimão, died yesterday, July 15, in Portimão.
Júlio Bernardo was the author of many of the beautiful images about Portimão from the 50s and 60s that are now exhibited at the Portimão Museum, but also in restaurants, cafes and private homes in the city and beyond.
José Gameiro, director of the Portimão Museum, told the Sul Informação regret "very deeply" the death of the photographer, with whom he had "a very close relationship, friends and colleagues in photography, for many years."
Gameiro highlighted the “energy and sensibility” of Júlio Bernardo as a photographer and as a person. «Fortunately, the Museum of Portimão has a vast collection of Júlio Bernardo», so, as soon as possible, «an exhibition of homage» will be promoted.
Just recently, in December 2011, the Museum of Portimão had promoted the exhibition «One City, 2 Photographers», honoring the work of two photographers in the city – Júlio Bernardo and Francisco Oliveira. At the time, both attended the opening of the exhibition.
The exhibition «Uma Cidade, 2 Photographers» revealed his different ways of looking at Portimão, from the 50s to the late 70s of the XNUMXth century.
Júlio Bernardo, a trader by trade, photographed for pleasure and also devoted himself to other arts, such as cinema, painting and scenography. He was a man of a thousand facets, not only as an award-winning photographer and cinematographer, but also as a painter and set designer, linked to the Portimão carnivals and theatre. Famous was his award-winning film “There is fish on the pier“, which shows images of a city in Portimão entirely dedicated to fishing, which has now disappeared.
Julius Bernard
Born in 1916, in the parish of Ferragudo, and from an early age he showed a taste for drawing.
At the age of eight, he moved to Portimão with his parents and stood out at teacher José Buísel's school through the drawings he made there of his classmates and the teacher himself.
Endowed with a multifaceted artistic personality, Júlio Bernardo reveals himself, in addition to being a painter and designer, a talented photographer, set designer, and filmmaker.
His insertion in the city's groups and collectivities led him to collaborate in various events, namely in the creation of sets for parties and for local amateur theater groups and in the decoration of the carnival floats in Portimão, in the 50s.
But it will be as a photographer and filmmaker that Júlio Bernardo would stand out the most, areas in which he was recognized with several national and international awards.
From his filmography, with about thirty films of reduced format (8mm, super 8 and 16 mm), the “There is fish on the pier”, an important document that makes known the bustle and movement of the fish discharge in the old pier as symbols of local identity.
funeral
The body of Júlio Bernardo is in a burning chamber in one of the mortuary chapels of the Igreja do Colégio, in Portimão, until tomorrow morning. At 10:30 am Mass will be said and then the coffin will proceed to the place where the body of the ill-fated photographer will be cremated.
Updated at 13:20 pm, adding information about the funeral.
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