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Bruce Weber's O Rio de Janeiro is a paean to the city, weaving portraits, still life, & landscape photos with a study of Jiu-Jitsu champion Rickson Gracie.
Bruce Weber's O Rio de Janeiro is a paean to the city, weaving portraits, still life, & landscape photos with a study of Jiu-Jitsu champion Rickson Gracie.
Bruce Weber's O Rio de Janeiro is a paean to the city, weaving portraits, still life, & landscape photos with a study of Jiu-Jitsu champion Rickson Gracie.
Bruce Weber's O Rio de Janeiro is a paean to the city, weaving portraits, still life, & landscape photos with a study of Jiu-Jitsu champion Rickson Gracie.
Bruce Weber's O Rio de Janeiro is a paean to the city, weaving portraits, still life, & landscape photos with a study of Jiu-Jitsu champion Rickson Gracie.

WEBER, Bruce.

O Rio de Janeiro / A Photographic Journal by...

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1986.

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Bruce Weber's elegant paean to Rio interweaves portraits, still life, and landscape photographs with an extended study of Brazillian Jiu-Jitsu champion Rickson Gracie, whose father Helio was one of four brothers who opened the first Jiu-Jitsu academy in Brazil. Carlos, the eldest brother, had learnt the martial art from Esai Maeda, who had emigrated from Japan to Brazil in 1914.

First edition; 4to (367 x 281 mm, 14½ x 11 in); 130 black-and-white and colour photographs by Bruce Weber, drawings by Richard Giglio, printed in offset, designed by Sam Shahid, Rïse Daniels, and Donald Sterzin; photo-illustrated adhesive-bound card covers, near-fine; [196]pp (incl. 4 folding).

The Book of 101 Books pp254-5.

Stock code 110696

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Bruce Weber's O Rio de Janeiro is a paean to the city, weaving portraits, still life, & landscape photos with a study of Jiu-Jitsu champion Rickson Gracie.

O Rio de Janeiro / A Photographic Journal by...

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