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200 full-color photographs
216 pages
10-1/4 x 10-1/4"
Hardcover book with audio CD containing 20 live recordings from Rio de Janeiro
Published 2000
ISBN: 0-7892-0642-0
Stock Number: 6420
U.S. $45.00
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More Photos: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4
• 36 Photographs: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4
• About the music CD
• Read an interview with the
photographer Helmut Teissl and
view Carnival photos taken since
this book was published
• Return to Carnival in Rio home
The parade participants, the samba school's organizers and directors, the spectators, the reporters from around the world—everyone feels the anticipation.
For the dancers, singers, and musicians, the procession is the fulfillment of a dream, one that has made their difficult lives more bearable for a year. At Carnival time, social distinctions that make life so hard for so many no longer apply. The industrialist masquerades as a clown, the housemaid as a celebrated samba star of the Sambódromo, the government minister as a surdo player, the taxi driver as his mestre de bateria, the jobless girl from the favela as a ravishing Cleopatra—all come together in the rhythm of the samba and a desire to emerge victorious. For all of them, the parade is 80 minutes of excitement and intoxicating color—and for many pain, frustration, and failure. Eighty minutes of another, more rapturous life leaving them happy and exhausted.
Cameramen from around the world try to capture the color and variety of the all-too-evanescent Carnival. Spectators succumb to the pure joy of rediscovering something they thought they had lost with their childhood: the capacity for sheer enchantment.
