Fotografías

Proyecto fotográfico donde la fotógrafa autodidacta Ahumada mientras camina en los bosques, descubre la sensualidad y la interpretación erótica de las formas, la textura y los colores de naturaleza. El autor Ruy Snchez acompaña el catálogo con un cuento titulado "Alicia en el bosque de Eros" (Alice in the Forest of Eros).

Para conmemorar el centenario del nacimiento de David Alfaro Siqueiros (1896-1974) se publica esta iconograf a, estructurada de modo que nos gu e por los evento de la vida de este controvertido pintor. Este material no s lo nos muestra fotograf as del artista pl stico, sino del personaje hist rico: activista sindical, educador, orador y militante pol tico. As , las im genes nos muestran el itinerario de este artista excepcional.

Nadar, whose real name was Felix Tournachon (1820-1910), was a conspicuous, even astonishing presence in nineteenth-century France. Engaging and quick-witted, he invented himself over and over as a bohemian writer, a journalist, a romantic utopian, a caricaturist, a portrait photographer, a balloonist, an entrepreneur, a prophet of aeronautics. The name "Nadar" was on everyone's lips. Today, it is Nadar's photography that is remembered. His sitters, who were often his friends, included the great men and women of his time: Dumas, Rossini, Baudelaire, Sarah Bernhardt, Daumier, Berlioz, George...

As I recall discovering this book of photographs, I remember the sense of beauty and mystery that remains undiminished almost seventy years after its original publication. On a formal plane, one can easily understand how Man Ray manipulated the optics of the camera, juxtaposing near and far, object against object, space against object, and tactile against transparent. It is also apparent how he deliberately manipulated the process of photographic printmaking, using unusual tones of black, white, and gray to transform content into spaces, forms and surfaces. However, it is not simply how Man...