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Miguel Rio Branco - Oeuvres photographiques / Photographic Works 1968-1992, RM + TOLUCA EDITIONS + Le Bal, 2020, Barcelona / Paris

 

Hardcover.

The photographs of Miguel Rio Branco, as Jean-Pierre Criqui has noted in the text accompanying the hundred or so images that make up the publication, “offer us a vast catalog of texture and matter, assembled with a sensitive eye in tune with the esthetic transmutations of the most humble, vile motifs. (Baudelaire on the ragman, in Artificial Paradises: ‘Everything the city rejects, everything it has lost, disdained and broken, he labels and collects. He consults the archives of debauchery and the dregs of society. He sorts through them all to make intelligent choices; he gathers, like a miser his treasure, the rubbish which, once digested by the divinity of industry, will become objects of use and property.’) Texture and matter are characterized here by excess (which explains the ‘asphyxia’ MRB speaks of in photography): excess of life in all directions and its inseparable counterpart—death at work.”

Miguel Rio Branco’s photography captures the bodies of men and women in all their glory and their weariness, their modesty and exhibitionism, with intentional close-ups, against backgrounds devoid of depth. He collects the archives of depravity and rubbish as something that should not be forgotten or pretended not to be seen. His own gaze supports those of his models: nothing is evaded. His characters have their backs to the wall. As the artist himself has put it: “Photography most often oppresses or asphyxiates reality.”

Order at RM.

Pages: 120
Place: Barcelona / Paris
Year: 2020
Publisher: RM + TOLUCA EDITIONS + Le Bal
Size: 19 x 27 cm (approx.)







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Hardcover.

The photographs of Miguel Rio Branco, as Jean-Pierre Criqui has noted in the text accompanying the hundred or so images that make up the publication, “offer us a vast catalog of texture and matter, assembled with a sensitive eye in tune with the esthetic transmutations of the most humble, vile motifs. (Baudelaire on the ragman, in Artificial Paradises: ‘Everything the city rejects, everything it has lost, disdained and broken, he labels and collects. He consults the archives of debauchery and the dregs of society. He sorts through them all to make intelligent choices; he gathers, like a miser his treasure, the rubbish which, once digested by the divinity of industry, will become objects of use and property.’) Texture and matter are characterized here by excess (which explains the ‘asphyxia’ MRB speaks of in photography): excess of life in all directions and its inseparable counterpart—death at work.”

Miguel Rio Branco’s photography captures the bodies of men and women in all their glory and their weariness, their modesty and exhibitionism, with intentional close-ups, against backgrounds devoid of depth. He collects the archives of depravity and rubbish as something that should not be forgotten or pretended not to be seen. His own gaze supports those of his models: nothing is evaded. His characters have their backs to the wall. As the artist himself has put it: “Photography most often oppresses or asphyxiates reality.”

Order at RM.

Pages: 120
Place: Barcelona / Paris
Year: 2020
Publisher: RM + TOLUCA EDITIONS + Le Bal
Size: 19 x 27 cm (approx.)