Mario Cravo Neto
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Mario Cravo Neto is a photographer from the northern Brazil city of Bahia. Cravo Neto began his career as a sculptor, following in his fathers footsteps, but has found in photography a medium that gives full expression to his creative capacities. His work is marked by an ability to combine the ethnographic references of the voodoo culture of northern Brazil with highly formal aspects of artistic expression. His work is elemental, usually wedding the human form with objects of nature or ritual. The subjects of Cravo Neto's work are the natives of his community, and he uses them to enact the drama of indigenous rituals. The use of high overhead lighting heightens the sense of drama and sculptural representation and creates a highly tactile surface. The richness of the work is also enhanced by the elegant black and white printing. |
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