Miguel Rio Branco: Silent Book
Language: Portuguese
Published by Cosac & Naify, São Paulo, 1997
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Vincent Borrelli, Bookseller, Albuquerque, NM, U.S.A.Vincent Borrelli, Bookseller
AbeBooks seller since February 22, 2001
Condition: Used - Near fine
US$ 1,045.00
Quantity: 1 available
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First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Photographically illustrated paper-covered boards; no dust jacket as issued. Photographs by Miguel Rio Branco. Designed by Jean Yves Cousseau. Unpaginated (92 pp., with 3 two-page gatefolds), with 75 four-color plates. 7-3/4 x 7-3/4 inches. [Cited in Martin Parr and Gerry Badger, The Photobook: A History, Volume II. (London and New York: Phaidon, 2006) and in Horacio Fernández, The Latin American Photobook. Aperture Foundation and Fundación Televisa, 2011.]. Near Fine (moderate stray surface marks, visible only in raking light, slight abrasions to the corners, else Fine). From Parr and Badger: "The book begins with an enigmatic image of an ominous, half-open doorway, followed by one of a glittering knife, and we are soon at the heart of the matter -- the dark, sweaty Santa Rosa gym. The recurring metaphors revolve around violence, death, religion, poverty. His images of the gym, and also of a bullfight, suggest that the sacramental violence offered in sport is not, as some suggest, an incitement to violence outside, but a way to mitigate or break the cycle. The stage-managed violence of the boxing ring or bull-fighting arena is a release for the frustration of the poor and for the lucky few who might have the talent for it -- an escape.".…
Seller Inventory # 110096
- Title
- Miguel Rio Branco: Silent Book
- Author
- RIO BRANCO, Miguel
- Publisher
- Cosac & Naify, São Paulo
- Publication year
- 1997
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Dust jacket
- No dust jacket as issued
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- Portuguese
- ISBN 10
- 8586374210
- ISBN 13
- 9788586374210
- Edition
- 1st Edition.
- Seller catalogs
- Class, Corporeal, Death/Loss, Diaristic Imagery, Taboo
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Vincent Borrelli, Bookseller
Albuquerque, NM, U.S.A.
AbeBooks seller since February 22, 2001
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