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Housed in a slipcase, Rio contains the work of two photographers
who portray Rio de Janeiro in a visual dialogue spanning the
centuries. Book One showcases nineteenth-century photographer Marc
Ferrez's classical work on the city where he spent his five-decade
career, from the mid-1860s to the early 1910s, while Book Two
presents a project of Robert Polidori's from the past five years,
in which he photographed Rio, emphasizing its contemporary dynamic
and dense urban configuration. Polidori contextualizes today's Rio
within the natural settings from which the city grew, and which
have defined its iconic international profile throughout history.
This tension between the natural and built environments, also
significant in Ferrez's work, is a defining reference for Rio's
inhabitants and is here beautifully documented in its historic and
present variations. Marc Ferrez (1843-1923) is the most important
Brazilian photographer of the nineteenth century. Ferrez produced a
vast documentation of Rio and its surroundings using specialized
cameras and large-format negatives, including a rotating panoramic
camera. His last large-scale project was the Avenida Central album
(1905), a unique architectural photography series on urban renewal
in Rio in the early 1900s. Robert Polidori (born 1951) was born in
Montreal and today lives in Los Angeles. Polidori received the
World Press Photo Award in 1997, the Alfred Eisenstaedt Award for
Magazine Photography in 1999 and 2000 and Communication Arts awards
in 2007 and 2008. In 2006 Polidori's controversial photographs of
Hurricane Katrina's aftermath were exhibited at The Metropolitan
Museum of Art, New York.
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