Antoine d'Agata
‘Cidade de Pedra’
by Antoine d'Agata, published by Void.
“The book presents a measured and enigmatic edit of black and white images – of bodies and skin, rocks and the moon, landscapes and birds. Each image hints at different stories, but as a whole, the photobook resists presenting a singular narrative.”
Antoine d'Agata
Cidade de Pedra
From 2005 to 2009 Antoine d’Agata had spent most of his time in Cracolandia, the crack neighborhoods of São Paulo and Salvador. Doubtless the roughest areas of Brazil.
“An unfinished diary of fragile and innocent interactions.”
Antoine d'Agata
With 169 images and more than 140 unseen photographs, ‘Cidade de Pedra’ is the most comprehensive document about this period. It reveals the brutality and the intimacy of his experience.
Antoine d'Agata
Antoine d’Agata is a French photographer born in Marseilles in 1961, where he spent his teenage years in violent combats for political militancy. Fascinated by the marginality, he had shared total experiences with whores, junkies, thugs. He left France in 1983 to travel the world. He went first to Central America, to distant revolutions, tin the search of self-destruction energy. Finding himself in New York in the early 90’s, he pursued an interest in photography by taking courses at the International Center of Photography where his teachers included Larry Clark and Nan Goldin. During his time in New York D'Agata worked in the editorial department of Magnum. His first books of photographs, De ‘Mala Muerte’ and ‘Mala Noche’, were published in 1998, and the following year Galerie Vu began distributing his work. In 2001 he published “Hometown”, and won the Niépce Prize for young photographers. He continued to exhibit and publish regularly.
17,3 x 22,2 cm
228 pages
57 unbound folds
Text by Antoine d’Agata in French, Portuguese and English
ISBN 978-85-93212-00-0
Cidade de Pedra
Featured in
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ENGLAND, Lanchester Library
ENGLAND, Picnic
GEORGIA, Tbilisi Photography & Multimedia Museum
GREECE, Photometria Photography Center
GREECE, Void
IRELAND, The Library Project
LATVIA, ISSP
ROMANIA, Photo Romania Festival at Grain Lab
USA, Cornell University Library
USA, Princeton University Library
WALES, University of South Wales Library
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Photograph: Antoine d'Agata
Text: Antoine d'Agata
Design: João Linneu
Edit: João Linneu
Printing: MAS Matbaa
Binding: MAS Matbaa
Language: English, French, Portuguese
Font: DIN 2014 by Paratype, Adobe Caslon Regular
Antoine d'Agata © for the photographs and text
Void © for this edition