O Perfume do Boi (Signed)

André Príncipe
O Perfume do Boi (Signed)

Photographs: André Principe

Publisher: Pierre von Kleist

48 pages

Year: 2012

Price: 20 €

Comments: Softcover. Staple binding. 340 x 235 mm. First edition, 2013. Third book of a trilogy (The first two books are "Master and everyone" and "I thought you knew where all of the elephants lie down"). Copy signed by André Principe. In very good condition.

O Perfume do Boi (translated: "the perfume of the bull") was shot during a three-month anticlockwise journey around Portugal's borders.

Outside cities, out in the fields and in the woods, in small town circuses, with the lunatics and the acrobats. The very strong narrative feeling comes with an equally strong suspicion that there might be no story. The photos of the animals and people combined with the natural elements, cause a sense of eminent danger and trouble. There is an aura of prophecy and myth, and in the end we are left with the echo of a cry in the night.

"The Japanese five elements are, in ascending order of power - Earth, Water, Fire, Wind, and Void", says the author.