Miguel Rio Branco

Paci Contemporary Gallery

ISBN 10: 8836647529 / ISBN 13: 9788836647521

Editore: Silvana, IT, 2023

Miguel Rio Branco was a freelance photographer and director of photography for movies when he embarked on documentary photography, and was soon noticed for the dramatic quality of his colour work. In 1980 he became an associate of Magnum Photos. Fascinated by places of strong contrast, the power of tropical colours and light, he made Brazil his main area of exploration. This volume includes a special introductory text by Germano Celant and a critical intervention by Walter Guadagnini."The work of Miguel Rio Branco is shaped by his need for the magic of the image, which is the result of a moment of grace and naturalness in the human condition. Through his images, he seeks a solution that offers a continuity between life and photography. Indeed, in his photographs, the passions of life are not subjected to any purifying cleansing, but offer the observer the outward fabric of life captured from its dark side, where all the conflicts of a human and non-human reality end up. Every form surges into this reality and is reduced to debris, but also to primitive and pure energy."- Germano CelantText in English and Italian. Codice articolo LU-9788836647521

Riassunto:

La magia dell’immagine, frutto di un momento di grazia e di naturalità della condizione umana, è l’istanza che informa il lavoro di Miguel Rio Branco, il quale ricerca con le sue immagini una soluzione di continuità tra esistenza e fotografia. Nelle sue inquadrature infatti i furori della vita non sono sottoposti a un lavacro purificatore, ma offrono allo spettatore il tessuto esteriore della vita, colta nel versante della sua oscurità, laddove precipitano tutti i conflitti di una realtà umana e non umana nel cui fiotto ogni forma è ricondotta a detrito oppure a energia primitiva e pura.
Germano Celant

Dalla quarta di copertina: Miguel Rio Branco was a freelance photographer and director of photography for movies when he embarked on documentary photography and was soon noticed for the dramatic quality of his colour work. Text in English and Italian.

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Titolo: Miguel Rio Branco
Casa editrice: Silvana, IT
Data di pubblicazione: 2023
Legatura: Hardback
Condizione: New