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Brazilian photographer, painter, and filmmaker
Miguel Rio Branco
Born 1946 (age 77–78) Nationality Brazilian Known for photography Notable work Silent Book Website
www .miguelriobranco .com .br
Miguel Rio Branco (born 1946) is a Brazilian photographer, painter, and filmmaker (director and cinematographer).
[1] His work has focused on
Brazil and included photojournalism, and social and political criticism.
[2]
Rio Branco is an Associate Member of
Magnum Photos . His photographs are included in the collections of the
Museum of Modern Art and
Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
Life and work
Rio Branco was born in
Las Palmas ,
Gran Canaria , in the
Canary Islands .
[3]
[4] His parents were diplomats and he spent his childhood in
Portugal ,
Switzerland ,
Brazil and the
United States .
[1] In 1976 he moved to
New York City , where he earned a
BA , and took a one-month vocational course at the
New York Institute of Photography .
[1] In 1978, he moved to
Rio de Janeiro and studied at the Industrial Design College.
[1]
He has been an Associate Member of
Magnum Photos since 1980.
[3] He lives and works in Rio de Janeiro.
[2]
Rio Branco's Silent Book (1997) is included in
Parr and
Badger 's The Photobook: A History, Volume II.
[5]
Publications by Rio Branco
Dulce Sudor Amargo. Mexico: Fondo de Cultura Economica, 1985.
ISBN
978-9681619695 .
Nakta. Brazil: Multiprint Grafica, 1996.
Silent Book. São Paulo: Cosac & Naify. 1997.
ISBN
978-8586374210 .
Miguel Rio Branco: An Aperture Monograph. New York: Aperture, 1998.
ISBN
978-0893818012 .
Pele do Tempo. Brazil: Centro de Arte Hélio Oiticica, 1999.
Entre Los Ojos. Barcelona: Fundación "la Caixa", 1999.
ISBN
978-8476646632 . Text in Spanish and English.
Miguel Río Branco habla con Teresa Siza. Conversaciones con Fotografos. La Fábrica, 2002.
ISBN
978-8495471369 . In Spanish.
Entre os Olhos, o Deserto. Brazil: Cosac & Naify, 2002.
ISBN
978-8575030721 .
Gritos Surdos. Portugal: Centro Portugues de Fotografia, 2002.
Plaisir la Douleur. France: Textuel, 2005.
ISBN
978-2845971691 .
Out Of Nowhere. Luste, 2009.
ISBN
978-8561914103 .
Você está feliz? Cosac & Naify, 2012.
ISBN
978-8540502598 .
Mechanics of Women. La Fábrica, 2017.
ISBN
978-8417048051 .
New York Sketches. Xavier Barral, 2018.
ISBN
978-2365111720 .
Short films by Rio Branco
Trio Elétrico
Caveirinhas
Nada Levarei Quando Morrer = those who owe me will be charged in hell – 20 minute documentary with still and moving images
[3]
Entre os Olhos o Deserto
Gritos Surdos
Collections
References
External links
International National Artists