The sunny and bright colors of these photos take us back 40 years ago, to the era when tourism in Rio was just beginning to develop. Canadian photographer Blake Smith captured the eternal and beautiful Copacabana beach, the statue of Christ the Redeemer and Brazilian girls enjoying the sun and walking around in bikinis ... in February 1978.
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