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With
the essay "Perceptions of Light
and Color", the Brazilian photographer
Edelweiss Bassis in them presents photographic,
inherent clippings and details to the
agricultural zone where if they locate,
in the State of the Rio Grande Do Sul,
the colonies of the descendants of the
Italian immigrants. Edelweiss portraits,
with rare sensitivity, the lights and
colors of in such a way external environments
how much internal, where they live,
they work hard, in a all proper world,
personalized, these descendants of Italian
immigrants. The fort of these images
shown here is in fine the cut-of-scene,
the excellence of the balance between
the light and the shade, together with
colors that possess a good dose of saturation,
consisting these, as a signature, an
authorial mark of Edelweiss Bassis in
Yours beautiful photographs. It is a
photographer with high degree of contemplation
perception, adjusted to a refined aesthetic
sense, only carrying through its works
after to be fully customary with the
atmosphere, the lights, the colors and
the people of the environments that
it is for photographing. Speaking of
yours works in Photograph, Edelweiss
in explains them:
"My
objective is to extract the beauty of
the daily one, of the trivial one. I
look the beauty in the ugly one, the
dirt, the defects. It is this that it
inspires to me. To see the beauty where
nobody sees. The colors fascinate me.
The contrast. The opposites. I look
for to give the dramatically tone of
the Black-and-White in my saturated
and contrast photos. It is for there...
"
The
essay "Perceptions of Light and
Color", consists in a parcel of
an extensive photographic documentation
that Edelweiss Bassis carried through
in the interior of the gauchos counties
of Garibaldi, Antonio Prado, Bento Gonçalves
and Caxias do Sul, among others, focusing
environments, the agricultural people,
activities, the colonial products, the
lights and the colors that personalize
the agricultural places where these
descendants of Italian immigration in
the south extremity of Brazil live.
Mario Bitt-Monteiro
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