Ricardo Rangel

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Ricardo Achiles Rangel (born February 15, 1924 in Lourenço Marques, today Maputo ; † June 11, 2009 ibid) was a Mozambican photographer and photojournalist.

Life

Ricardo Rangel was born to a Greek businessman and a Sino-African mother. He grew up with his African grandmother on the outskirts of Maputo, and frequently visited his parents, who lived in the interior of Maputo Province. In 1941 he became an apprentice in Maputo, in the photo laboratory of Otílio Vasconcelos. From the mid-1940s he worked in the Focus photo lab in black and white development before becoming the first black photo reporter for the newspaper Notícias da Tarde in 1952 . After further stations, he became the chief photo editor of the newspaper A Tribuna in 1960 , which he left in 1964 for ideological reasons. He then went to Beira , where he worked for various newspapers.

In 1970 he and four other journalists founded the color magazine Tempo , which extensively documented the country's independence in 1975. In 1977 he became the head of the photo editor of the newspaper Notícias and was also given the task of training photographers. In 1981 he became editor-in-chief of the weekly Domingo . In 1984 Rangel created the Centro de Formação Fotográfica in the capital, a national training center for photography, of which he became director.

He was married to a Swiss woman named Beatrice. Ricardo Rangel died on June 11th, 2009 at the age of 85 in his home in Maputo.

reception

Rangel photographed mostly black and white. Before Mozambique gained independence from Portugal in 1975, he mainly photographed the white city , the city of the colonial rulers. Social injustice and the nightlife of his country were among the most important topics of his work. He was also known as a proven jazz friend with an extensive record collection.

The Guggenheim Museum New York showed his work in 1996 as part of the exhibition on African photography since the 1940s. He was also honored at the Biennale “Encounters of African Photography” ( Rencontres africaines de la photographie ) in Bamako .

In 2006, the Brazilian Licínio Azevedo , who lives in Mozambique, made a documentary about Rangel's life and work entitled Ricardo Rangel - Ferro em Brasa . The title (English: Ricardo Rangel - the hot iron) alludes to a well-known photo in which Rangel had photographed an African boy with a brand on his forehead.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry on Ricardo Rangel (port.) In the Infopédia , the online encyclopedia of the Porto Editora , accessed on December 28, 2013.
  2. ↑ Ricardo Rangels biography at www.iluminandovidas.org, accessed December 28, 2013.
  3. ↑ Pictures and statements in the film Ricardo Rangel - ferro em brasa , u. a. 7:20, 9:00 and 38:20, DVD release doc.net films / LX Films, Portugal 2010.
  4. ^ Obituary for Rangel (port.) At www.jazzmanbrasil.com, accessed on December 28, 2013.
  5. ↑ Website for the film ( Memento of the original from November 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (German) on the website of the Instituto Camões in Hamburg, accessed on December 28, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.clpic.uni-hamburg.de
  6. ↑ DVD cover Ricardo Rangel - ferro em brasa / fer rouge (Portuguese and French), doc.net-films / LX Filmes 2010.
personal data
SURNAME Rangel, Ricardo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rangel, Ricardo Achiles (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mozambican photographer and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH February 15, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Maputo , Mozambique
DATE OF DEATH June 11, 2009
Place of death Maputo , Mozambique