Machina mundi
Subtitle: as engrenagens do mundo = the world machine
By: Claudio Edinger ; textos/texts, Mauricio Lissovsky, Guilherme Ghisoni da Silva
Publisher: Bazar do Tempo
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Rio de Janeiro
Language: por; eng
Number of pages: 120
ISBN-13: 9788569924272
Subjects: Catalogs; Artistic Photography; Landscape photography; Aerial photography; Aerial photographs; Pictorial works
Description: The current three-year editorial project compasses the work of one of most noted living photographers in Brazil. These are photographs of the metropolis of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro seen from above, composed in a way that looks like a huge machinery. Claudio Edinger's (b. Rio de Janeiro, 1952) trick, which is photographed with the help of helicopters, revolves around precise illumination and radical use of selective focus, a function that allows you to create images with well-defined areas surrounded by a blurred effect. The close to fifty large-format aerial photographic images seem to have been captured by the eye itself: the main object is clear, while the surroundings appear blurred. Son of a German father and Russian mother, born in São Paulo, a Jew who is also Hindu. The photographer has twice won the Leica Medal of Excellence award in the United States, the Ernst Haas Prize.
Table of contents: title: Apresentação = Presentation / Joseph Campbell (1904-1987); title: Poesia para tempos míopes = Poetry for shortsighted times / by Maurisio Lissovsky; title: Contemplação além da contingência do mundo (Claudio Edinger e a "Tractus Logico-Philosophicus" de Wittgenstein) = Contemplation beyond the world's contingency (Claudio Edinger and Wittgenstein's "Tractus Logico-Philosophicus") / Guilherme Ghisono.