The Keenest Eye

Berenice Abbott (1898-1991) was Man Ray's darkroom assistant, friend of Eugene Atget and the person most responsible for rescuing his work from oblivion. If that were not enough, she was also a great photographer on her own right. There was hardly anything she could not do well, whether it be portraits, cityscapes, landscapes or domestics interiors.
There is a commonplace saying about great photographers: they knew were to put the camera. this statement seems to have been invented for Abbott. Her framing is so precise, so apt, that you are left with the feeling that the picture could not possibly have been taken from any other perspective. A new two-volume edition of her work, "Berenice Abbott"(Steidl) only confirms this, proving in the bargain that when she photographed something, it stayed photographed.

Berenice Abbott published by Steidl /
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Araquém Alcântara - Nature's Brazilian Photographer

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Araquém Alcântara
Mar de Dentro / (The Inner Sea)
In early 2007, Araquém Alcântara publishes two new books about two different rainforest biomes in Brazil:

• A Grande Floresta / (The Great Forest) about the Amazon and

• Mar De Dentro / (The Inner Sea) about the Atlantic Rainforest.

"Mar De Dentro" is the name given to the Estuarine Lagoon Complex that stretches along the coastline from northern Paraná to southern São Paulo. This region represents the largest continuous remnants of Atlantic Rainforest in Brazil and is part of the so - called Southeast Reserves, a designated UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1999. The book was realized with the help of SPVS, an environmental NGO in the state of Paraná.


No começo dos anos 70, nas quebradas do mundaréu lá de Santos tinhamos uma turma muito boa. Turma essa que passava horas a fio, madrugada a dentro, sentada em volta da praça da Independência, como que discutindo o destino da humanidade. Araquém era um de nós. Que grande honra!