Frederik Buyckx Jesus Make-up and Football Rio Brazil Photobook 2013

by Frederik Buyckx

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FREDERIK BUYCKX — JESUS, MAKE-UP AND FOOTBALL Rio de Janeiro, Brazil • Documentary Photography First Edition • Lannoo, 2013/2014 Out of Print • 308 Pages • Like New BUYCKX, Frederik. Jesus, Make-up and Football: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Tielt, Belgium: Lannoo Publishers, 2013 [international distribution, 2014]. First edition. Large-format illustrated paperback, approximately 11 × 8¼ inches. 308 pages. English-language edition. A striking and increasingly difficult-to-find early photobook by acclaimed Belgian documentary photographer Frederik Buyckx, winner of the 2017 Sony World Photography Awards Photographer of the Year title. Published before the international recognition of his later photographic projects, Jesus, Make-up and Football is an intimate, visually powerful study of everyday life in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, photographed during the years leading up to Brazil's hosting of the 2014 FIFA World Cup and 2016 Olympic Games. The photographer's official website currently lists the book as sold out. INSIDE THE FAVELAS OF RIO DE JANEIRO Rather than photographing Rio de Janeiro from the familiar perspective of the tourist or outside observer, Frederik Buyckx spent months living in one of the city's favelas, developing relationships with residents and documenting their daily experiences. His photographs move beyond sensational images of poverty and violence to reveal the complexity, resilience, humor, aspirations, and contradictions of these densely populated urban comm

• Publisher: Terra Lannoo, Uitgeverij
• Year: 2013
• Binding: Paperback
• ISBN: 9789401412261
• Condition: Fine

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