Miguel Rio Branco (Spanish, b.1946)

LOT ID: 68778

Snake Dream (Diptych), 1985

Other, Black and white photograph on baryta paper

15.75 х 19.69 in. cm.

Signed, on certificate

Edition 3/40 + 7AP

Lot description

A fascinating diptych by this master of narrative, available for the first time here, each photograph measures 40 x 50 cm.
Miguel Rio Branco was born in 1946 in Las Palmas on Gran Canaria. Self-taught, he first exhibited pictures and photos in Bern in 1964. From 1966 to 1968 he studied at the New York Institute of Photography and at the Escola Superior de Desenho Industrial in Rio de Janeiro. Since 1969 Rio Branco has been professionally active as a photographer and filmmaker, and in the following 20 years was casting director and cameraman of 14 short and 7 documentary films. During his time in New York from 1970-72 he took photos and made experimental films. Since 1980 he has been a correspondent for the photo-agency Magnum in Paris and New York, and since 1982 a member. His photos have appeared in well known magazines such as Aperture, Geo, National Geographic, Paris Match, Paseante, Photo Magazine, Stern and Time.
Rio Branco has won a number of awards including the 1st prize of the Photography Triennial in São Paulo (1980), the prize of the Brazilian Film Festival (1981), the special prize of the jury of the XI. Festival International de Court Métrage et du Film Documentaire in Lille for "Nada levarei quando morrer aqueles que mim deve cobrarei no inferno" ("I shall take nothing with me on dying, since my debtors will cover my costs in hell", 1982), the Prix Kodak de la Critique Photographique in Paris (with two other photographers) and the prize for best casting and camerawork in the films "Memoria Viva" und "Abolição" at the Brazilian Film-Festival (1988).
His works are exhibited in museums such as the Museu de Arte and the Museu de Arte Moderna, both in São Paulo, the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, the Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam and the Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego.
Miguel Rio Branco lives and works between Rio de Janeiro and Salvador da Bahia.

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Provenance:
Edition Exitmedia, Madrid, Spain
Private Collection, Germany
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