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A tribute to the poet


A tribute to the poet
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Copyright: Bruno Camolez (kmolz) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 87 W: 53 N: 228] (1157)
Genre: Places
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2004-04
Categories: Daily Life
Camera: Canon EOS 20D
Photo Version: Original Version, Workshop
Theme(s): Sculptures: statuary and ornamental [view contributor(s)]
Date Submitted: 2004-04-25 12:31
Viewed: 1444
Points: 18
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
This is the statue of Carlos Drummond de Andrade, a major reference when it comes to brazilian literature and poetry.

Written on this bench at Copacabana beach, one of his quotes:

"From the sea, a city was meant to be"

One of his more well-known poems, "Seven-Sided Poem", is made up of seven un-uniform stanzas, with the content of each remaining independent of the others, not unlike the associative gaps of the Persian ghazal. They leap from a darkly comic enthusiasm ("When I was born, one of those/crooked angels who live in shadow/said: Go on, Carlos, be gauche in life"), to voyeuristic personifications and surrealist conditionals ("The houses look out on men/chasing after women./If the afternoon were blue/there might be less desire"), to a shocked fragmentation of a trolley car "full of legs".

Winter of 1987, Julieta, his only daughter died. Carlos Drummond de Andrade passed away 12 days later, at the age of 85.
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Oi Bruno. Gosto imenso deta foto. As cores da estátua são fantasticas. Só não gosto do fundo. Fiz ym workshop e espero que gostes.

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  • cxxl Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 135 W: 11 N: 73] (1335)
  • [2004-04-25 17:31]

This is very well composed with the statue looking directly at you. I also like the slight angle and the colours. Well done.

This image brings alive and adds to your excellent notes,
I do love the angle you taken it Bruno, it really scales this shot and brings forth the statue, night shots are always difficult I find but the light here is fantastic bringing out the hues of the bronze with such detail , also glad you did not crop the background as this is a picture within a picture, well seen and posted most pleasing to the eyes

I like the tension you have created in this composition by including both his head and feet, but just barely. Their placement so near to the edge of the frame adds a dynamic quality to the photo and provides for some nice negative space.

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  • freddd Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 329 W: 54 N: 77] (1909)
  • [2004-04-26 23:35]

The slight overexposition works so fine here in this brillant composition. It looks like you put all the focus on the statue without taking care of the rest and the result is just wonderful. Big BRAVO!

Sem dúvida um grande tributo,a foto está fantastica adorei as cores e os brilhos que a etátua emanam,sensasional,Abraços.

Lovely shot, Bruno. The colors and mountain in the background are just sublime! Châpeau!

Simplesmente fantastica.... o irreal dentro da realidade.
Poetica ! ....Drumont de Andrade !

linda foto, Bruno. Ainda não havia visto esta imagem à noite, e confesso que prefiro assim, moody.
maravilhosa a intromissão da orla, cheia de brilho.
excelente nota. excelente tradução. é sua?

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