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Brasilia The Modernist Utopia Photographic Essay

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ISBN-10: 148125524X

ISBN-13: 9781481255240

Edition: N/A

Authors: Adonai Rocha

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Brasília - the modernist utopiaA photographic essay by Adonai RochaBrasília seems the ultimate modernist fantasy: pristine, elegant, refined , and a remarkable demonstration of lucidity. These shots seem to offer a sumptuousness to that vision. The light, color and panorama provide an exoticism. The modernist utopia of a socially ambitious beauty comes unhinged, when we see in the shadow of the great civic buildings, children living amongst the trees. That this cultivated treat of Brasília arises or was created ex-nihilo (or out of nothing) suggests to me a certain view that the natural process of growth, in all its human messiness, is somehow corrupt.The experience of the GigaPan in…    
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Book details

List price: $29.99
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Publication date: 3/6/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 114
Size: 8.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.27" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

Adonai Rocha is a Brazilian multimedia professional, artist and photographer.Adonai was born in 1958 in Minas Gerais, Brazil. Still a child, he moved to Brasilia in 1967 - when the Capital city of Brasilia was still under construction despite its official inauguration in 1960. Adonai grew up in Bras�lia and began taking pictures in the 70's as architecture photographer's assistant. He attended the University of Bras�lia Communication course in the 70's but due the turmoil and repressive apparatus during Brazil's military dictatorship period, he moved to London where he studied photography and film at the Polytechnic of Central London and the British Film Institute.After the opening of…