Vendeur : J. W. Mah, Burnaby, BC, Canada
Hardcover. Etat : Fine (-). Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. 1st. (BRA) Stated first edition, No markings, a faint scuff mark to the bottom edge of pages, Fine (-) in Very Good dust jacket with shallow scuff marks to the back panel just to a 1.5 x .5" area where it was used under a sheet of paper for writing. Large square format, light blue cloth, 242pp, full-page colour photos of Salvador in Brazil where the photographer grew up. Mário Cravo Neto (Salvador, April 20, 1947 Salvador, August 9, 2009) was a Brazilian photographer, sculptor and draughtsman.[1] Mário Cravo, son of the sculptor Mário Cravo Júnior, was one of the first contemporary photographers of Brazil. The text is in Portuguese and in English. A heavy book. (4.5 JM 0322 LVR Size: 4to - over 9¾ - 12" Tall. N° de réf. du vendeur 08130
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Vendeur : The Poet's Pulpit, Oakville, ON, Canada
Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. 1st Edition. About the book: Hardcover with jacket. First Edition. Bilingual Edition. Both jacket and book are in fine condition. Non-authorial inscription front free endpaper. Additional photos available upon request. We're not satisfied unless you are. N° de réf. du vendeur 000189
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Vendeur : Books to Give ~ Books to Love®, Alexandria, VA, Etats-Unis
Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Near fine. Photography by Neto, Mario Cravo (illustrateur). First edition. "Salvador"-in this case a first edition copy in fine condition-serves as an excellent introduction to the work of Mario Cravo Neto. Neto was a Brazilian artist who worked in the last part of the 20th century and was best known for his photography. Starting in the mid-1970s, that photography tended to be black-and-white images of staged imagined ceremonies that evoked the bi-racial and multi-cultural people of his native Bahia state in Brazil. But things shifted with this book, "Salvador," in 1999. Here, he moved from black-and-white to rich color film and took his camera out into the streets of the capital of Bahia, Salvador, where he himself lived and grew up. Though some of the scenes could possibly be staged, it is obvious that he wants to share his world-his Salvador-as it is, not as a stylized recreation. At the same time, nothing about the photographs here could be considered "objective," and though they are beautiful, they certainly aren't conventionally pretty in the way that would make the local tourist board happy. Critic Anna Wilkes Tucker noted that, "[T]his is a very personal book.more poetic, and less informative, than might be expected." She stated, for instance, that Salvador originated as a major center for the Portuguese slave trade with Africa, and to this day it has one of the largest black and mixed-race populations in Brazil. Tucker points out that hardly any of the people photographed for "Salvador" are white and none come from the upper classes. Neto makes a point of photographing everyday people but also produces a gallery of the town's intellectuals and artists, as if to point with pride at what this former slave port has produced. He documents the city's artwork itself, too, whether that is various kinds of folk art or the incredible baroque altarpieces in the city's colonial churches. Neto belonged to an artistic family-his father, Mario Cravo Junior, was a famed sculptor and now his son, Christian Cravo, is a photographer himself-and his father's sculptures appear in these sections. The images of churches, especially of the religious statuary, blend in with his photographs of ceremonies and worshipers involved with indigenous and uniquely Brazilian religions which combine African, Christian, and other beliefs, particularly Candomblé, which developed in Brazil in the 19th century. This marked a turning point in Neto's work, which, starting in 1999, took on a new spiritual dimension that focused especially on Brazilian religious expression, and within that especially on Candomblé, until his death in 2009. Our copy is apparently a first printing-there is no date line or any reference to other printings on either the copyright page in the front or the expanded copyright page in the back-and is stated as a first edition. All of the text appears in both Portuguese and in English. It is in fine condition, the only flaw being a gift inscription on the first free end paper in the front. It is bound in sky blue cloth with the title blind stamped in large letters at the bottom of both covers; nothing appears on the spine. The dust jacket is in near-fine condition because of a bit of shelf wear along the edges. The front panel of the dust jacket is covered by a copy of a full-page photograph of a boy holding a large waterbird (a gull?) by the beak and the book title in large gold letters at the bottom. The back dust jacket panel is similar, with a copy of a photograph of small boats tied up in the harbor with the photographer's two surnames elided together at the bottom. Both pictures appear within the textblock. There is very little text in this book-no captions, no table of contents, and only a few short essays, with a list of dates of the dates of the photographs at the end. The large majority of the pages are simply photographs-mostly full page, but a few smaller and a few stretching across two pages-and the only pages with page numbers are the ones with text. None have any markings, tears, or other flaws. N° de réf. du vendeur 728
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Vendeur : Frank J. Raucci, Bookseller, Wallingford, CT, Etats-Unis
Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine. First Edition. TEXT in Portugese and English. Minor bumping at top of dustjacket spine, elsewise a FINE, bright, clean, tight, scholar/collector-worthy copy sans other flaws. The world-renowned art photography of Mario Cravo Neto. PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED in full-color, full and double-page photography. 242 pages. NOTE: Due to the large size and over 4 lb. shipping weight of the book additional shipping cost will be required for OUT-OF-U.S. shipment. LBCMB4. N° de réf. du vendeur 012391
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