A Short History of Photography Told in a Few Takes

“In the works of Cássio Vasconcellos the pictorial gains form in the city, producing an image that does not expose the boundary between capture and manipulation. There is no way to be sure
whether the image was made as it appears or whether it was manipulated. There is a certain insistence on the angle which, from above, transforms all of a city’s objects and spaces into a flat and silent surface. With its urban scene theme, the photographic image works with printing processes that are similar to painting and etching. There is nothing documental; his perception of the urban landscape ends up revealing the city in shards of light and color, a reclassification and ordering of the urban context that transforms what could be chaos, noise and movement into absolute silence.”

FOTOGRAFIA NA ARTE BRASILEIRA SÉC XXI
Ed. Cobogó, Rio de Janeiro, 2013
Cover Image by: Rosângela Rennó