DULCE SUDOR AMARGO (Bittersweet Brazil)

Miguel Rio Branco
DULCE SUDOR AMARGO (Bittersweet Brazil)

Photographs: Miguel Rio Branco

Text: Jean-Pierre Nouhaud

Publisher: FONDO DE CULTURA ECONOMICA MEXICO

132 pages

Year: 1985

Price: 200 €

Comments: Illustrated softcover, 21,5 x 27 cm. First Edition. Colors photographs. Design by Peggy Espinoza. In good gondition other than a bump on the corner of the back cover which affect a lot of pages but not the images itself.

In 1985, Miguel Rio Branco 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.