Fashion 14 (2008) Photography by Alexandre Magno

The photography of Alexandre Magno allows the eye to touch the skin on many levels. Through her lens, he makes the viewer aware of the sensitivity and the sensuality of skin, which he examines in detail, without ever forgetting to be aware of the importance of the shapes of the structure that the skin envelopes. Light is one of Alexandre’s most important tools and assets. He allows it to play around with his subjects and then catches it at its most seductive moment and from that moment on, it is captured for posterity. Skin tones, often called skin color or complexion, refers to the actual color of a sitter’s skin (black, brown, red, yellow, white, etc.) and is often called local color. Flesh tones, on the other hand, refer to the different nuances within the actual color. Within the black, brown, red, yellow or white skin color, there are several subtle combinations, or nuances, that are known as flesh tones. Like the yin and yang philosophy, many colors come together to make one color, and in one color exists many different colors. For example, from a distance we see White complexion, Black complexion, Brown complexion or Red complexion. When we look closer, we start to notice the blues, pinks, yellows, purples and all the subtle nuances ranging from muted to intense mixtures, warm and cool tones. It’s just like looking at a computer image. If you reduce or scale down a picture to a smaller size, the picture will get as fine and detailed as possible. But enlarge it and you will see big squares of pixels.

• Nationality: BRAZIL
• Date of birth : unknown date
• Artistic domains: Represented by a Gallery,
• Groups: Contemporary Brazilian Artists Artists presented by a gallery