Touch of Evil
Rio Branco, a photographer and experimental filmmaker, has been a correspondent for the Magnum photo agency since 1980. Best known for his lush images of contemporary Latin American life, he uses color with extraordinary sensuality and expressive refinement. The caramel tones and subdued light in this photograph of the seamy underside of a tapestry evoke the gravitas of Old Master paintings, while the title and the figure's obscured features create a potent sense of mystery, an intimation of secrets that lie just below the surface.
Artwork Details
- Title: Touch of Evil
- Artist: Miguel Rio Branco (Brazilian (born Spain), Las Palmas de Gran Canaria 1946)
- Date: 1994
- Medium: Silver dye bleach print
- Dimensions: Image: 118.1 x 118.1 cm (46 1/2 x 46 1/2 in.)
Frame: 121.9 x 121.9 x 4.4 cm (48 x 48 x 1 3/4 in.) - Classification: Photographs
- Credit Line: Purchase, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Gift, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 2000
- Object Number: 2000.76
- Rights and Reproduction: © Miguel Rio Branco
- Curatorial Department: Photographs
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