{"product_id":"miguel-rio-branco-maldicidade-paulo-herkenhoff-9783836572330","title":"Miguel Rio Branco. Maldicidade","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eMaldicidade\u003c\/em\u003e, 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 \u003cstrong\u003esearing urban portrait\u003c\/strong\u003e from visual artist \u003cstrong\u003eMiguel Rio Branco \u003c\/strong\u003edraws upon his itinerant early years as the son of diplomats to reveal the \u003cstrong\u003ecommon threads of struggle and loneliness in metropolises\u003c\/strong\u003e around the world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe images are impeccably captured, but the pictures are not always pretty. \u003c\/strong\u003eRio 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 \u003cstrong\u003estreet sleepers, beggars, prostitutes, stray dogs, smashed cars, and shattered glass\u003c\/strong\u003e that characterize his urban impressions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e While subtle details reveal the specificity of place, it is \u003cstrong\u003ethe commonality of urban experience at the heart of Rio Branco's project\u003c\/strong\u003e. 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 \u003cstrong\u003eevocative patterns of motif\u003c\/strong\u003e (decrepit buildings, lone figures, smashed-up cars); \u003cstrong\u003ecolor\u003c\/strong\u003e (rich reds, dusty pinks, stark whites and blues); and \u003cstrong\u003eform\u003c\/strong\u003e (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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e At once incisive in its message and lyrical in its arrangement, \u003cem\u003eMaldicidade\u003c\/em\u003e focuses attention on the city's ineludible magnetism, as much as on its alienation and inhumanity. Biting, bare-faced, and achingly beautiful, it is\u003cstrong\u003e a collection in which all city dwellers will find something of themselves\u003c\/strong\u003e, or something they long to escape.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Paulo Herkenhoff\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 3836572338\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9783836572330\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Taschen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/15\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 464\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 3.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 13.20h x 9.90w x 0.90d","brand":"Paulo Herkenhoff","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43991329669375,"sku":"9783836572330","price":80.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_dfafa8c4-3e78-4164-a9a0-bdcb19de6c49.jpg?v=1683309680","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/miguel-rio-branco-maldicidade-paulo-herkenhoff-9783836572330","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}