Desenhos – José Bechara – 2010

Presentation: Marcelo Rocha
Review: Fernando Cocchiarale
Trilingual edition (Portuguese, Spanish, English)

The book “Desenhos – José Bechara” allows the reader to follow the beginning of the artist’s creative process. The traces essays, the paintings and sculptures drafts are born from the artist’s exercise to make his ideas tangible on paper, before starting their construction – the record of how an artistic idea needs to be worked out by its creator until it gains form. More than a historical record of the artist’s work, “Desenhos – José Bechara” allows the interested reader to light the creation universe, understanding more about the construction of award-winning and worldwide renowned works.

Ilhas – reimpressão 2008

Photographs: Gustavo Malheiros / Text and Research: Eduardo Junqueira
Format 28 cm x 28 cm, 204 pages

Art book with photographic essays about five very beautiful Brazilian islands (Fernando de Noronha, Ilha Grande, Ilha de Santa Catarina, Marajó and Trindade).
Finalist in the 15th Fernando Pini Award of Graphic Excelence in the Cultural and Art Books Category (2005) and launched at Canning House (London, 2005) with the support of the Brazilian Embassy.

Empresas mais que centenárias – 2007

Text and Research: Eduardo Junqueira
Format 23 cm x 28 cm, 168 pages

The book includes archive images and detailed research and provides an overview of Brazilian companies with more than a hundred years, trying to disclose the secret of their long existence.

As grandes personagens da história do cinema brasileiro – Volume 3 – 2006

Texts by Eduardo Giffoni Florido and Flavio Leandro de Souza

Publisher: Fraiha

Designed to pay a tribute to the great cinema producers in the country, this book – which is part of a collection devoted to the subject – encompasses not only the personal life and careers of some major actors of success between 1970 and 1979 but pay homage to people who contributed to film making as producers, musicians, designers, critics, screenplaywriters and even investors and lovers of the seventh art. A total of 84 characters are disclosed to the reader through a short biography and black-and-white photos.

Foi no Carnaval que passou – 2006

Photographs: Gustavo Malheiros
Format 28 cm x 28 cm, 180 pages

This book is the result of four years work of photographer Gustavo Malheiros taking pictures of Rio de Janeiro’s Carnival.

Navios e Navegantes – 2004

Texts and research: Eduardo Junqueira

Publisher: ArteEnsaio

Curious and challenging aspects of psychology and anthropology are issues that the seas, navigation and seamen may raise. All of them part of the background of this work which depicts the sea: either as an important source of natural wealth which must be exploited without any restriction, or as the cornerstone of a puzzle on the environment which must be protected.

O Livro das Águas – 2003

Photographs: Gustavo Malheiros

Format 23 cm x 28 cm, 176 pages

Art book with a collection of images and texts that present the Brazilian waters through photographic angles and unexpected approaches, produced by the renowned photographer Gustavo Malheiros.

Lapa do Desterro e do Desvario – 2001

Organization: Isabel Lustosa

Publisher: Casa da Palavra

Collection of short stories and texts about the Carioca quarter called Lapa, written by a team of stars: Aluízio Azevedo, Arthur Azevedo, João do Rio, Lima Barreto, Benjamim Costallat, Wilson Batista, Orestes Barbosa, Ribeiro Couto, Noel Rosa, Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Luis Martins, Manuel Bandeira, Francisco de Assis Barbosa, Vinicius de Moraes, Moacir Werneck de Castro, Herivelto Martins, Moacir Andrade, Antônio Maria, Mário Lago, Madame Satã (João Francisco dos Santos), Fernando Sabino, João Antônio, Rubem Fonseca, Aguinaldo Silva.

Mapa do Maravilhoso do Rio de Janeiro – 2001

Beatriz Jaguaribe

Publisher: Sextante

A book that alternates poems and photographs related to Rio de Janeiro, addressing people, Carnival, natural beauties and Religion, among others subjects. The book includes poems by Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Cecília Meireles, Manuel Bandeira, Murilo Mendes, Oswald de Andrade and Pablo Neruda and the photography collection of Moreira Salles Institute, JB’s Archive, Museum of Image and Sound and National Historical Museum.

Museu da Imagem e do Som – Rastros de Memória – 2000

Ricardo Cravo Albin

Publisher: Sextante

The work tells the story of the small and brave Museum of Image and Sound located in Rio de Janeiro’s Historical Center. The author, writer Ricardo Cravo Albin holds authority for this: he was its first director from 1965 to 1971, and also led the museum in his back during those turbulent years, when everything seemed to contribute to destroy it.

Notas de Viagens – 2000

Pereira Passos

Publisher: Sextante

Controversy. This was one of the main characteristics of the administration of Pereira Passos in Rio De Janeiro, between 1902 and 1906, and that promoted the full re-urbanization of the city. Notas de Viagens discloses different aspects of the personality of the former mayor are revealed, who lived in Europe after leaving the government, Europe and from there sent letters to his friend and director of engineering works during his administration, Américo Rangel. Initially published in 1913 under the title Cartas a um amigo (Letters to a friend), the book contains technical descriptions of all places visited by Pereira Passos in Europe, in which he traces a parallel with Brazil and its problems, in an attempt to alert the Brazilian society of its backwardness.