First limited edition of Based on a true story by David Alan Harvey(2012)

First impression

Medium format hardcover in fine condition

Pages clean, binding firm

Edition of 600 copies

Includes: 

• 66 full bleed photographs 9,64 ” x 14,17 “
  
• 1 poster 14,17 ” x 18,50 “
  
• 1 roadmap for original re-assembling
  
• 1 postcard with clues
  

Presented in a cardboard box

About

(based on a true story) is a collection of spectacular, mysterious moments.  The story moves with fluidity and ease, all day and all night, through a city that is never named on a continent never specified. Is it journalism?  Is it “staged”?  As the poet said: partly truth partly fiction, a walking contradiction.

The images explode with color, heat, humidity, sex, more sex, danger, fear, chaos, more chaos.  There are sublime women that look like Greek statues, were the Greeks to ever have imagined those hips and that café au lait skin.  There are monsters – masked paramilitaries with automatic weapons, a skeletal transvestite, her face a death mask grimace, drinking beer through a straw and smoking her cigarette down to the filter.

Harvey hits all the high points – even clichés – of Rio de Janeiro, but his treatment is subversive.  Beaches, mountains, high society, favelas, jungles, voodoo; they’re all here, but thrown together in a high-energy, digital montage that evokes the emerging aesthetic of Chaos Cinema.