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Costa (review copy)

by José Pedro Cortes

Photographs: José Pedro Cortes

Text: José Pedro Cortes

Publisher: Pierre von Kleist editions

80 pages

Pictures: Color & B/W

Year: 2013

Price: 75 €

Comments: 21 x 30,5 cm; Hardcover. slightly used copy. signed.

14 kms south from Lisboa, where I live, is Costa da Caparica.
During the last years I often found myself returning to this magnetic place.
José Pedro Cortes

Costa da Caparica is a place, south of Lisboa - a strip of land that exists between the last stretch of civilization and the beach. In COSTA, we wander through this territory: shacks, outmoded architecture, remains of houses, dirt left by the tide; an agglomeration of sand, vegetation and streets – a peripheral, end-of-the-line location.We are flooded by a strange luminosity; a dazzling and mysterious light which imbues these spaces with a disconcerting and unreal atmosphere, like something seen while in a hypnotic state, encouraging the spectator to participate in a suggestive and paradoxical exploration of individual experience.

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Costa (review copy)

by José Pedro Cortes

Photographs: José Pedro Cortes

Text: José Pedro Cortes

Publisher: Pierre von Kleist editions

80 pages

Pictures: Color & B/W

Year: 2013

Price: 75 €

Comments: 21 x 30,5 cm; Hardcover. slightly used copy. signed.

14 kms south from Lisboa, where I live, is Costa da Caparica.
During the last years I often found myself returning to this magnetic place.
José Pedro Cortes

Costa da Caparica is a place, south of Lisboa - a strip of land that exists between the last stretch of civilization and the beach. In COSTA, we wander through this territory: shacks, outmoded architecture, remains of houses, dirt left by the tide; an agglomeration of sand, vegetation and streets – a peripheral, end-of-the-line location.We are flooded by a strange luminosity; a dazzling and mysterious light which imbues these spaces with a disconcerting and unreal atmosphere, like something seen while in a hypnotic state, encouraging the spectator to participate in a suggestive and paradoxical exploration of individual experience.

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