20 Facts About Claudio Edinger

Claudio Edinger is a Brazilian photographer born in Rio de Janeiro in 1952.

Claudio Edinger lived in New York from 1976 to 1996.

Claudio Edinger worked as a freelance photographer for Brazilian and North American newspapers and magazines such as Veja, Time, Newsweek, Life, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, The New York Times Magazine, among many others.

In 1986 Claudio Edinger started photographing for a book about India.

In 1989 and 1990 Claudio Edinger photographed the Juqueri Psychiatric Hospital, in Sao Paulo, where he lived for two weeks.

Claudio Edinger received the Ernst Haas Award in 1990 for this work.

When he returned to Brazil in 1996, Claudio Edinger published Carnaval, by DBA, DAP and Dewi Lewis.

Between 1994 and 1996, Claudio Edinger photographed the old part of Havana, Cuba.

In 2000 Claudio Edinger published Cityscapes, with photographs of New York.

Claudio Edinger began working with a large format, 4x5 camera, in 2000, to photograph the city where he was born, Rio de Janeiro.

Claudio Edinger was born in Rio de Janeiro in May 1952 and before his second birthday his family moved to Sao Paulo.

Claudio Edinger has said that in his mind he has often thought his soul was in Sao Paulo and his heart in Rio.

When Claudio Edinger began his essay on the Building, it had been reduced to a vertical slum.

One can say that by exploring a subject in depth, Claudio Edinger had set the template of his aesthetic that the camera can be used to explore in depth which has resulted in over thirteen books dealing with specific subjects.

Claudio Edinger chose to live among and photograph the Hassidic Jews of Brooklyn.

Claudio Edinger photographed in telling, but sympathetic portraits many of the famous, as well as the eccentric personalities who were never to become famous who inhabited the world of the Chelsea Hotel in the late 1970s.

The series of photographs Claudio Edinger took at this time allowed the photographer to put his subjects in a wider landscape than the narrow confines of the Chelsea Hotel.

Claudio Edinger began to use color in his photographs and the holy city of Varanasi played a vital role in awakening his dormant recognition of his own need for a deeper spirituality that had begun in Brooklyn.

Claudio Edinger's beloved grandmother had been affected by the disease and he was moved to bring attention to the treatment of madness and dementia in Brazil and possibly in other places in the world where the mentally ill are often warehoused in asylums and become even more truly mad, This led to his series of photographs inside the Juqueri, Latin America's largest insane asylum.

The books that have subsequently come from his use of the large format camera and his experimental use of color, notably his most recent exploration of Sao Paulo have been a giant step in Claudio Edinger's work resulting in a widening acceptance of Claudio Edinger's photographs in exhibitions at art galleries, museums and private collections.