FANTASTIC, VERY SOUGHT-AFTER reprint of the Latin American CLASSIC from 1997 by MAGNUM PHOTOGRAPHER Miguel Rio Branco: - Martin Parr, Gerry Badger, The Photobook, volume 3, page 118 - Horacio Fernández, The Latin American Photobook, page 196/197 Signatures by this artist are very scarce. I GUARANTEE THE AUTHENTICITY OF THE SIGNATURE NEW, MINT, UNREAD - only opened once for signature. COLLECTOR'S CONDITION. Welcome to the next edition of the very popular one-seller auctions by Ecki Heuser, 5Uhr30.com (Cologne, Germany) - on Catawiki. We are offering some of the best international photobooks ever published. We guarantee: detailed and accurate descriptions, 100% protection, 100% insurance and combined shipping worldwide. Cosac Naify, Sao Paulo. 2012. Second edition (identical with the first). Hardback (as issued). 190 x 190 mm. 92 pages. 75 colour photographs. Photos: Miguel Rio Branco. Design: Jean Yves Cousseau. Text: Spanish. Great, important book by one of the main figures of the Latin American photography in perfect condition. Signed by the artist. "Son of diplomats, Miguel Rio Branco - born 1946, based in Petrópolis, Brazil - spent his childhood in Portugal, Switzerland, Brazil and the United States. He has variously been a painter, a photographer and a filmmaker. His first painting exhibition was in Bern in 1974, while he was living in Switzerland. Two years later, he moved to New York, where he earned his Bachelor of Arts, continued to paint, and took a one-month vocational course at the New York Institute of Photography. In 1978, he continued his studies in Rio de Janeiro, at the Escola Superior de Desenho Industrial, before launching into a career in photography and film. 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 color work. In 1980, he became an associate of Magnum Photos. Fascinated by places of strong contrast, in the power of tropical colors and light, he made Brazil his main area of exploration. In 1985, he published Dulce Sudor Amargo, a book in which he drew a parallel between the sensual, vital side of Salvador da Bahia and the historical side of the city, which, at the time (1979) was inhabited by prostitutes and the fringe elements of society. It is an essay on life and death, on the scars left behind by time and by living. The photographer’s fascination for these places of strong contrast essentially resides in the power of the tropical colors and light, which he conveys by means of his pictorial sensibility." (Magnum's website)