59 retratos da juventude negra brasileira
By: [Edu Simões ; textos, Juliana Borges, Cristianne Rodrigues]
Publisher: Bazar do Tempo
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Rio de Janeiro
Language: por
Number of pages: 152
ISBN-13: 9786586719376
Copyright date: 2020
Subjects: Blacks; Portraits; Portrait photography; History; Teenagers; Pictorial works; Civilization
Other titles: Edu Simões :; Cinquenta e nove retratos da juventude negra brasileira
Description: Brazilian black youth is being exterminated. Recent studies on violence in Brazil, compiled on the Map of Violence, reveal a frightening number: 59 young black people are murdered every day. No, these young Brazilians are not invisible. Edu Simões is a photographer with more than forty years of career, celebrated in the fields of photojournalism and art photography that he decided to show, traveling around the country to portray young people from the outskirts of various cities, such as Belém, Brasília, Porto Alegre, Rio de Janeiro, Salvador and São Paulo, embodying this cruel statistic. It seeks, with this, to give visibility to this intolerable Brazilian reality, the legacy of a policy of social payment, as the researcher, writer and activist Juliana Borges points out, an important voice in the contemporary debate and which presents in "59" an illuminating text about the historical context of violence against blacks in the country. Cristianne Rodrigues, an experienced curator of photography, brazilian based in Paris, where she has held several exhibitions as curator of the Maison Européenne de la Photographie (MEP), among other French institutions, presents a surprising overview of the representation of the black population in iconography over almost two hundred years, analyzing how the contribution of Edu Simões presents these young black people in another way: flashy, resistant, with identities and subjectivities. "Engraved in the center of the image, standing, full body, silent, they are the ones who look us in the eyes," says Cristianne.
Notes: Available with 59 different covers.

Title from cover.

Chiefly illustrated.

Includes bibliographical references.

Texts in Portuguese and English.
Table of contents: title: Todos os dias 59 jovens negros são assassinados no Brasil / Edu Simões; title: 59 retratos da juventude negra brasileira; title: Um apagamento social / Juliana Borges; title: Pele alva, pele alvo / Cristianne Rodrigues; title: Everyday in Brazil 59 young black men are murdered / Edu Simões; title: 59 portraits of black Brazilian youth; title: Social erasure / Juliana Borges; title: White skin, targeted skin / Cristianne Rodrigues.