Miguel Rio Branco and the Curse of Cities (Maldicidades 2014)
This essay will discuss the book Maldicidade (2014) by the Spanish-Brazilian photographer Miguel Rio Branco with a special attention to its organization as a narrative and poetic unity as a photobook. In focus is the book’s composition as an implicit dialogue between text and image and the use of mo...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra
2021-11-01
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Series: | MatLit |
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Online Access: | https://impactum-journals.uc.pt/matlit/article/view/9562 |
Summary: | This essay will discuss the book Maldicidade (2014) by the Spanish-Brazilian photographer Miguel Rio Branco with a special attention to its organization as a narrative and poetic unity as a photobook. In focus is the book’s composition as an implicit dialogue between text and image and the use of modernist avantgarde techniques of montage and collage aiming at the expression of a contemporary reality of misery and hardship in the big cities of the Americas. The overarching argument is that the unity of the book as a photobook surpasses the referential nature of photography through visual narrativity in the effort to reveal the common condition of its posthuman urbanity. |
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ISSN: | 2182-8830 |