Gente en el cine

This book is published to celebrate the awarding of the 2009 International Prize for Photography Citoler Pilar to Juan del Junco (born 1972). Since 2000, del Junco has explored a kind of comedic staged photography in which (for example) a young woman paints her plants the same blue as her dyed hair, or dogs look on while a couple make love.

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...

La obra reúne un conjunto de estilos fotográficos que se van entremezclando en la primera mitad del siglo XX, estructurados en tres períodos: la fotografía artística, momento en el que por primera vez la imagen fotográfica deja de ser sólo producto de la técnica y pasa a formar parte del arte; la fotografía de documento social o fotografía humanista, momento en el que el fotógrafo refleja su entorno cotidiano, la forma de vida y la indumentaria del tipo español y, por último, la fotografía moderna, momento en el que el fotógrafo aprovecha las cualidades innatas del medio...

A SPECTACULAR COLLECTION OF PHOTOGRAPHS THAT RECORD THE ASTOUNDING BEAUTY, SCALE, AND DIVERSITY OF NINETEEN AFRICAN COUNTRIES. THIS IS A RARE TREAT TAKEN FROM A UNIQUE BIRD'S-EYE VIEW IN A HELICOPTER.