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Futebol

Urban Euphoria in Brazil

In Brazil, soccer is more than just a sport. It is hope for a better future, a distraction from everyday life, creator of identity and community. If there is no ball around, people kick fruit or cans; when there is no field, they make one. Soccer marks the soul of the Brazilian people, as well as the image of city and landscape. Any land that is somewhat level and not overgrown or built up becomes a soccer field. Even though there may be a lack of meeting places, parks, or village centers, there is always a campo de pelada. In this volume, two Brazilian photographers seek and find soccer in places where one might not expect to find it.

Leonardo Finotti creates a kind of inventory, showing pictures from his series Campos Sagrados, for which he traveled through all of Brazil, to neighborhoods rich and poor, to industrial zones, urban peripheries, and to the country, to take photographs from an elevated standpoint of temporary and “real” soccer fields and their surroundings.

In his photo series Brasilieiros Futebol Clube Ed Viggiani accompanies his fellow countrymen everywhere where soccer is played or a team followed.

In Brazil, soccer is more than just a sport. It is hope for a better future, a distraction from everyday life, creator of identity and community. If there is no ball around, people kick fruit or cans; when there is no field, they make one. Soccer marks the soul of the Brazilian people, as well as the image of city and landscape. Any land that is somewhat level and not overgrown or built up becomes a soccer field. Even though there may be a lack of meeting places, parks, or village centers, there is always a campo de pelada. In this volume, two Brazilian photographers seek and find soccer in places where one might not expect to find it.

Leonardo Finotti creates a kind of inventory, showing pictures from his series Campos Sagrados, for which he traveled through all of Brazil, to neighborhoods rich and poor, to industrial zones, urban peripheries, and to the country, to take photographs from an elevated standpoint of temporary and “real” soccer fields and their surroundings.

In his photo series Brasilieiros Futebol Clube Ed Viggiani accompanies his fellow countrymen everywhere where soccer is played or a team followed.

With photographs by Leonardo Finotti, Ed Viggiani

With essays by Luís Antônio Jorge and Afonso Celso Gárcia Reis

Design: Integral Lars Müller

17 x 23 cm, 6 ¾ x 9 in

64 pages, 32 illustrations

hardback

2014, 978-3-03778-431-0, English
Documentary Photography Visual Diary Community Life Latin America
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Leonardo Finotti

Leonardo Finotti is a Brazilian photographer with an international reputation. Whether the results of commissions or his personal initiatives, his photos are published all over the world. His visual research revolves around cities and architecture, with solo and group exhibitions and works shown in important public and private collections. He runs obra comunicação, a collaborative communication office that produces articles, exhibitions, and catalogs. Previous publications include Futebol (Lars Müller Publishers, 2014) and A Collection of Latin American Modern Architecture (Lars Müller Publishers, 2016).

Ed Viggiani

Ed Viggiani (*1958) is a Brazilian photographer. He has a master’s degree in Communication Science from ECA USP and a bachelor’s degree in Sociology from FESPSP. Professionally active since 1978, Viggiani started his career as Chico Albuquerque’s photography assistant and as a photojournalist at O Povo journal. He has worked for major Brazilian newspapers and magazines such as IstoÉ magazine, Folha de S. Paulo, O Estado de S. Paulo, and Jornal do Brasil. Viggiani was recognized with the Mother Jones International Fund’s prize, the APCA award for the best photography exhibition and the Marc Ferrez Funarte prize, among others. His work is part of important collections, such as Masp and MAM-SP.

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