of the project: My Pittoresca Amazon
(a project that is becoming an exhibition already scheduled for March/2024 in Ouro Preto, MG-Brazil and perhaps a book as well)
I have a deep identification with the Brazilian Amazon, which I have visited many times for environmental work in my almost 50 years as a professor/researcher at UFSCar.
The two photos presented here are a small but representative sample of my adventures in the region.
The name of the series was inspired by the term picturesque, which is an aesthetic concept that refers to the subjective impressions triggered by the contemplation of a landscape scene in relation to painting. It emerged as an intermediary between the ideas of the sublime and the beautiful, during the development of Romanticism (late 18th century/early 19th century). The word derives from the Italian pittoresco, “resembling or made like a painting” (Wikipedia).
Antonio Mozeto 
só você pra conseguir fotos bonitas em preto e branco em uma floresta verde 😉 Boa sorte com o show.
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É…o verde é difícil mesmo trabalhar-se em branco & preto… Essas fotos, Alessandra, são todas em filme, ou slide em cores ou negativo P&B…
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I share your love for the Amazon, Antonio, as perhaps you can see from my last few posts. . I am blessed that within seven hours drive I can be in the Peruvian high jungle, and with a short flight, to the major tributaries that lead to the Amazon. I look forward to seeing more of your work.
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This is so great for you, Geoff!!! am very far away from the Brazilian Amazon Forest but enjoyed and explored it for many years while being a researcher in the field of Environmental Biogeochemistry at the Federal University of São Carlos, at São Carlos SP, SE Brazil for almost fifty long years. Many thanks for your comments on my work every once in a while…
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