Sertões

Maureen Bisilliat, Euclides da Cunha

Photography and literature have always been united in the work of Mauren Bisilliat, who seem to gain her maximum point of refinement in this "Sertões: luz & trevas" now reedited for a third time. Bisilliat combines images she took between 1967 and 1972 in northeastern Brazil -in which Ariano Suassuna saw echoes of a "Royal Brazil"- from excerpts from "O Sertões", Euclides da Cunha's classic work. "This third edition in Portuguese published by IMS, which has kept Maureen Bisilliat's photographic collection since 2003, basically follows the original structure (of the first edition), with only a few modifications. Euclides da Cunha's texts were compared with the critical edition of "O Sertões" (Ubu, 2016) which were organized, noted and criticized by professor Walnice Nogueira Galvão. Some photographs were made larger, gaining a double page or extending the margins: two were replaced by...