Shadows in São Paulo – The New York Times

Shadows in São Paulo

Obsessed with an image of four men on a rooftop in Brazil, the author went on a quest to find its origins.

Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/23/magazine/shadows-in-sao-paulo.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0

Are they gangsters? Are they bankers? There are certain photographs that seem to have been pulled out of the world of dreams. ‘‘Men on a Rooftop,’’ by the Swiss photographer René Burri (1933–2014), is one such picture