Somos Brasil [SIGNED BY PHOTOGRAPHER]
Sao Paulo, Brazil: Editora Madalena: ImageMagica, 2016. First edition. Hardcover. Large quarto. (13" x 10-1/4"). (520)pp. Triple column text. Black cloth spine over flexible black covers stamped in darker black. Housed in a heavy pictorial gray cloth portfolio stamped in black & white. Illustrated with 107 full-page color portraits (Marcus Lyon, himself, is portrait #107). Inscribed and signed on a black preliminary leaf in white ink by Marcus Lyon, dated 03/14/2018. Text in Portuguese. A fine, as new, copy.
Abstract: Winter 2016/17 saw the Somos Brasil project move to the next level with the final production of the book and the design of the Exhibition. After soft launches in the Guardian, BBC and Globoœs G1 the project now launches on March 9th at Centro Brasileiro Britânico in São Paulo. This ground-breaking project has moved on at pace over the winter months, with the final book, designed by Jim Sutherland & Alice Tosey of Studio Sutherl& ready to ship in March. Lyon has also created an image activated app, produced by Matt Hill with Calvium in Bristol, UK to augment the show and images. In addition ancestoral DNA analysis of all the nominated subjects has been supplied by Family Tree DNA lab in Houston, Texas. The book is published by Estudio Madelena, Brazilian premier photographic publishing group in conjunction with award-winning production house ImageMagica.
Contents: A pátria na palma da mão. Somos Brasil corpo alma e coração -- A invisibilidade das origens: Somos Brasil por Marcus Lyon = The invisibility of origins: Somos Brasil by Marcus Lyon / Martin Barnes -- Somos Brasil / Marcus Lyon -- Quem tem medo da identidade? = Who is afraid of identity? / Lilia Moritz Schwarcz -- O DNA do brasileiro = Brazilian DNA / Lygia da Veiga Pereira -- Locais de nascimento = Places of birth -- A viagem = The journey -- Migração = Migration -- II. Milagre brasileira o pais de braços abertos para o mundo inteiro -- III. Exhuberante braseiro: o fogo do Brasil é o povo brasileiro -- I. Homeland in the palm of a hand. Somos Brasil: body, soul and heart -- II. Brazilian miracle: the community with its arms open for the whole world -- III. Exhuberant Brazier: the fire of Brazil is the Brazilian people -- Indice de imagens = Image index. Item #50826
ISBN: 9788561921064
Price: $375.00