CLAUDIO EDINGER, OLD HAVANA, CARNAVAL, MADNESS

	CLAUDIO EDINGER		Claudio Edinger is an award winning photographer whose work has featured in magazines worldwide. He has published several books. He received a special LIFE magazine award and the prestigious Ernst Haas Award for the photographs featured in the book Madness.


£25.00 hardback 144 pages 82 colour photos 250mm x 250mm ISBN: 1-899235-36-1 ORDER NOW		OLD HAVANA Claudio Edinger Texts by Guillermo Cabrera Infanta & Humberto Wernek With the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of Soviet financial support (85% of its economy depended on Eastern Europe) Cuba has struggled to survive. Now its people search for ever more ingenious ways to get by. People queue for no other reason than to sell their placeto others. Newspapers are resold once they have been read. Chickens are raised in apartments and pigs in bathrooms. Prostitution, which the government used to boast had been eradicated, is back stronger than ever. Petrol is watered down for sale on the black market and, with little oil in the country, cars are replaced by bicycles, and tractors by ploughs. Cabrera Infanta, the foremost Cuban writer today, fought next to Castro in the 1959 revolution but left the regime in the early sixties, dissatisfied and disillusioned. Humberto Wernek is a leading Brazilian journalist who has travelled extensively in Cuba and writes frequently about the country.


£20.00 hardback ISBN: 1-899235-31-0 72 pages, 41 duotones 250mm x 250mm ORDER NOW		MADNESS Claudio Edinger Edinger confronts the dark side of mental illness. 'We stand in terror but at the same time we laugh. We see the feeble ridicule of man. We confront our own vulnerability and utter helplessness Madness is a deeply controversial and disturbing book. Edinger's portraits of the inmates of the massive 3,500 patient asylum of Juquieri in São Paulo, Brazil, are the result of his intense response to living and working in the asylum itself, and his own experience of dealing with the devastating effect of Alzheimers disease within his own family.


£25.00 hardback ISBN 1-899235-60-4 112 pages, 86 duotones 245mm x 300mm ORDER NOW		CARNAVAL Claudio Edinger Brazil's Carnaval is an unparalleled orgy of fun, frenzy and festival unlike anything to be found elsewhere in the world. Celebrated throughout Brazil, the most notorious and most extensive carnival is in Rio de Janeiro. Claudio Edinger's Carnaval is an extraordinary celebration of what is undoubtedly one of the most vigorous and exciting expressions of popular culture.