Fotografien

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...

"The birds, now immobile were organized in a scanner and converted into disturbing [photographic] images that maintain their vigorous splendor, sumptuous colors; the eternal presence of the beautiful "Duino Elegies" where poet Rainer Maria Rilke sings to the lethal birds of the soul and the beauty of the angels that announce their death are the inspirational reference for the artist"--Colophon. Includes short story "The man who spoke with birds" by Ethel Krauze.

La Mirada (the gaze) presents nine outside their country almost unknown Latin American artist-photographers. The works of the last 20 years range from straight photography to the staged image. This title describes not only gaze of the camera directed towards a specific subject, but also the artistic attitude and mental approach of the nine artists and their diverse views on photography.

En palabras de Claudio Rolle, la travesía va dejando vestigios de vida restituida por medio de los objetos, los apuntes, las huellas que, de manera más o menos involuntaria, dejaron esos hombres y mujeres cuya cadena vital se interrumpió al desaparecer sus etnias. Ante tamaña tragedia el silencio parece ser una primera respuesta, un silencio de conmoción y sobrecogimiento, de respeto y de solidaridad con las víctimas de un exterminio. Pero luego emerge con fuerza el imperativo que la historia en cuanto disciplina de conocimiento de la aventura humana en el tiempo y en sociedad nos...