Bruno Z´Graggen, Grant Lee Neuenburg (editors)
ILUMINANDO VIDAS Ricardo Rangel & the Mozambican Photography
Christoph Merian Publishers Basel 2002
170 pages, more than 100 photographs (black and white, duplex) in two versions:
- English/Portuguese (softcover) out of print
EURO 28 (European price)
Meticais 500,000 / EURO 22 (special price for Mozambique/Africa)
Print run 1,200 copies
ISBN 3-85616-161-9 - German/French (hardcover)
new: incl. all texts in English/Portuguese (booklet)
EURO 39 (European price)
EURO 22 (special price for Africa)
Print run 2,000 copies
ISBN 3-85616-160-0
The publisher Christoph Merian Publisher Basel released this deluxe catalogue, in 2 bilingual editions, on the 13th of April, 2002. The book was launched in Mozambique by co-curator Grant Lee Neuenburg and AMF (the Association of Mozambican Photography) on October 25th 2002, during PhotoFesta 2002 in Maputo.
The book contains more than 100 photographs, personal statements, biographical information and self-portraits from each of the 15 photographers, as well as detailed information about Mozambique. Texts contributed by recognized authors discuss the significance and development of Mozambican photography in general and Ricardo Rangel in particular.
Besides the two curators, two internationally renowned professionals, Allen Porter (ex-editor in chief of now-defunct photographic magazine CAMERA) and Simon Njami (co-founder and editor in chief of the magazine Revue Noire and director of 5es Recontres de la Photographie Africaine in Bamako, Mali) each contributed an article.
Amongst the authors are also found two recognized Mozambican names. The historian António Sopa (Conservator at Mozambique´s National Archives) contributed an article about the development of photojournalism in Mozambique. Calane da Silva (writer, journalist and professor of literature at Maputo´s Eduardo Mondlane University), penned a moving homage to his friend and companion Ricardo Rangel.
Both editions of the catalogue are available in Europe at the bookstores or directly at the publisher:
Christoph Merian Publishers Basel, Switzerland
Distribution
Renée Dilitz
Phone +41 (0)61 226 33 25
Fax +41 (0)61 226 33 45
E-Mail r.dilitz@merianstiftung.ch
visit www.christoph-merian-verlag.ch
The catalogue (English/Portugese version) is available in Mozambique at the bookstores and at the AMF in Maputo:
AMF
Phone/Fax +258 (0)1 48 61 35
E-Mail ass.fotografia@tvcabo.co.mz