Capitolio is New York documentary photographer Christopher Anderson's cinematic journey through the upheavals of contemporary Caracas, Venezuela, in the tradition of such earlier projects as William Klein's New York (1954-55) and Robert Frank's The Americans (1958). It presents a poetic and politicized vision, by one of today's finest documentary photographers, of a city and a country that is ripp...
Hardcover: 132 pages
Publisher: RM; 1st ed. edition (August 31, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9788492480579
ISBN-13: 978-8492480579
ASIN: 8492480572
Product Dimensions: 13.2 x 0.8 x 11.8 inches
Amazon Rank: 2187019
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As a working photojournalist, I buy and study a lot of photo books. I have to say that Christopher Anderson's "Capitolio" is one of the best releases in the last couple of years in my opinion. Photography in general and photojournalism in particular ...
t the seams under the stress of popular unrest, and whose turmoil remains largely unreported by Western media. No stranger to such fraught situations (he covered the 2006 conflict between Hezbollah and Israel from its inception), Anderson notates the country's current incongruities, where the violent and the sensual intermingle chaotically. "The word 'capitolio' refers to the domed building that houses a government," writes Anderson, elaborating on the title of this volume; "here, the city of Caracas, Venezuela, is itself a metaphorical capitolio building. The decaying Modernist architecture, with a jungle growing through the cracks, becomes the walls of this building and the violent streets become the corridors where the human drama plays itself out in what President Hugo Chavez called a 'revolution.'"
