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 m...
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oai:doaj.org-article:6e984bdc3e234f8db9866c5c9b6103ce2021-11-17T15:42:37ZMiguel Rio Branco and the Curse of Cities (Maldicidades 2014)10.14195/2182-8830_9-1_62182-8830https://doaj.org/article/6e984bdc3e234f8db9866c5c9b6103ce2021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://impactum-journals.uc.pt/matlit/article/view/9562https://doaj.org/toc/2182-8830 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. Karl Erik SchollhammerImprensa da Universidade de CoimbraarticleMiguel Rio Brancophotobookpoetic of compositionLanguage and LiteraturePLiterature (General)PN1-6790ENESPTMatLit : Materialidades da Literatura, Vol 9, Iss 1 (2021) |
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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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