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Mario Cravo Neto
Trance_Territories
Photographs
Catalog
The cult practices of the Candomblé *), the Afro-Brazilian
religion in Salvador da Bahia (Brazil), are the theme of the
new book of photography, Trance_Territories by Mario Cravo
Neto. With his photographs, Cravo Neto impressively continues
the work on the Candomblé initiated by Pierre Verger;
he transcribes it in colors while also finding for it a new
visual expression in the 21st century.
Cravo Neto’s photographs depict people
and objects, as well as the preparations for cult practices
and how these transpire. What emerge are sculptural images,
whose magical quality is inescapable for their viewers. The
mystic and supernatural, brought to a halt in cult practices,
is continued in minute detail in the photographic image.
Mario Cravo Neto was born 1947 in Salvador
da Bahia. Since the age of seventeen, he studied sculpture
and photography under the guidance of his father, the well-known
sculptor Mario Cravo Júnior. In the 1960s Cravo Neto
lived in Berlin before moving to New York. In 1970 he returned
to Brazil, and since then lives and works in Salvador. The
recipient of numerous prizes, he is today considered one of
Brazil’s most important photographers. In 2003 his latest
large-scale solo exhibition, entitled Na Terra _Sob Meus
Pés, was shown in Rio de Janeiro.
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88 color photographs, 100 pages, bound edition with dust jacket
With texts by Mario Cravo Neto and Ilares Tavares
Euro 24,80 / SFr 43,50
ISBN 3-88423-224-X
Publishing House Das Wunderhorn, Heidelberg 2004
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