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Herkenhoff Paulo - Miguel Rio Branco. Maldicidade - Hardcover
Herkenhoff Paulo - Miguel Rio Branco. Maldicidade - Hardcover
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Description: In Maldicidade the city never sleeps. By dawn or dusk in New York Havana Salvador da Bahia or Tokyo it is an environment fraught with yearning aching with solitude and fretful with fortunes never made. This searing urban portrait from visual artist Miguel Rio Branco draws upon his itinerant early years as the son of diplomats to reveal the common threads of struggle and loneliness in metropolises around the world. The images are impeccably captured but the pictures are not always pretty. Rio Branco is not interested in documenting historic city landmarks an impressive skyline or the aspirational dreams that soar up towards it. Instead he focuses his camera on the city's refuse and margins on that which it has thrown away and on those it has cast aside and disappointed. In stark frames or soft impressions it is street sleepers beggars prostitutes stray dogs smashed cars and shattered glass that characterize his urban impressions. While subtle details reveal the specificity of place it is the commonality of urban experience at the heart of Rio Branco's project. Light on local context or explanatory narrative the images are instead meticulously arranged into one redolent sequence of a universal city. Working as if in the cutting studio Rio Branco excels in the rhythm and succession of pictures crafting evocative patterns of motif (decrepit buildings lone figures smashed - up cars); color (rich reds dusty pinks stark whites and blues); and form (an anguished street sleeper beside an ecstatic statue of a saint). Throughout occasional pictures of women are proffered as sensual hopeful reprieve interspersing the grit and the grime in commanding portraits or up - close supple nudes. At once incisive in its message and lyrical in its arrangement Maldicidade focuses attention on the city's ineludible magnetism as much as on its alienation and inhumanity. Biting bare - faced and achingly beautiful it is a collection in which all city dwellers will find something of themselves or something they long to escape.
Title: Miguel Rio Branco. Maldicidade
Author(s): Herkenhoff Paulo
Publisher: Taschen Gmbh
Barcode: 9783836572330
Pages: 464 Pages
Publication Date: 5/15/2019
Category: Photographs: Collections
Description: In Maldicidade the city never sleeps. By dawn or dusk in New York Havana Salvador da Bahia or Tokyo it is an environment fraught with yearning aching with solitude and fretful with fortunes never made. This searing urban portrait from visual artist Miguel Rio Branco draws upon his itinerant early years as the son of diplomats to reveal the common threads of struggle and loneliness in metropolises around the world. The images are impeccably captured but the pictures are not always pretty. Rio Branco is not interested in documenting historic city landmarks an impressive skyline or the aspirational dreams that soar up towards it. Instead he focuses his camera on the city's refuse and margins on that which it has thrown away and on those it has cast aside and disappointed. In stark frames or soft impressions it is street sleepers beggars prostitutes stray dogs smashed cars and shattered glass that characterize his urban impressions. While subtle details reveal the specificity of place it is the commonality of urban experience at the heart of Rio Branco's project. Light on local context or explanatory narrative the images are instead meticulously arranged into one redolent sequence of a universal city. Working as if in the cutting studio Rio Branco excels in the rhythm and succession of pictures crafting evocative patterns of motif (decrepit buildings lone figures smashed - up cars); color (rich reds dusty pinks stark whites and blues); and form (an anguished street sleeper beside an ecstatic statue of a saint). Throughout occasional pictures of women are proffered as sensual hopeful reprieve interspersing the grit and the grime in commanding portraits or up - close supple nudes. At once incisive in its message and lyrical in its arrangement Maldicidade focuses attention on the city's ineludible magnetism as much as on its alienation and inhumanity. Biting bare - faced and achingly beautiful it is a collection in which all city dwellers will find something of themselves or something they long to escape.
Title: Miguel Rio Branco. Maldicidade
Author(s): Herkenhoff Paulo
Publisher: Taschen Gmbh
Barcode: 9783836572330
Pages: 464 Pages
Publication Date: 5/15/2019
Category: Photographs: Collections
