Title: 1968 Paris - Rio
Photographer(s): Bruno Barbey, Pedro de Moraes
Writer(s): Paulo Antonio Paranaguà, Ana Cecilia Impellizieri Martins, Cristianne Rodrigues
Designer(s): Bloco Gráfico
Publisher(s): Bazar do Tempo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Year: 2018
Print run:
Language(s): Portuguese, French
Pages: 160
Size: 19,5 x 26 cm
Binding: Softcover
Edition:
Print: Ipsis, São Paulo, Brazil
Nation(s) and year(s) of Protest: France, Brazil, 1968
ISBN: 9788569924364
In 1968, Bruno Barbey and Pedro de Moraes, then young photographers, took to the streets to capture the furore of demonstrations that were taking on the air of a civil war. That year, a global agitation put students and workers fighting for freedom and rights centre stage. But Bruno and Pedro were working in very different contexts: On the one hand, there was an old republic with a democracy solidly won over the centuries, which saw the youth uprising as a response to a conservative tradition; on the other, a country in the midst of a military dictatorship, installed four years earlier in a fragile republican nation in what was then known as the Third World, where students were waging a war against the regime, its anti-democratic and violent policies, on the eve of the most dramatic period of repression If the differences between Paris and Rio in 1968 were already well known, the similarities between the struggles are revealed in this book through the dialogue between the two photographers. The images, placed side by side 50 years apart, highlight the protagonism of the young people, bringing student leaders Daniel Cohn-Bendit and Vladimir Palmeira closer; they bring the battlefields of the Latin Quarter and Cinelândia closer; they make the tear gas thrown by the police cross the boulevard Saint-Germain and the avenue Rio Branco.