La imagen como fábrica

Exhibition highlights of the international photographic collection of the Foundation Televisa in Mexico with text by 81 prestigious writers. Each writer was given a copy of a photograph from the collection (from 1840-contemporary digital works) and asked to write an essay. Some of the photographers include: Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Anton Bruehl, Robert Capa, Gisele Fruend, Graciela Itrubide, Alfred Stieglitz, Cindy Sherman, Tina Modotti. Some of the writers include: Dore Ahston, Amitav Ghosh, Alvaro Mutis, Hugh Thomas, Jorge Volpi, Mike Wallace, Elena Poniatowska.

In our modern digital age, the polaroid is already becoming a relic of the past. However, the fleeting moment and the uniqueness of it, lend the polaroid a quality beyond its mere merit as a "good" or "bad" photograph. Like a painting, a polaroid becomes an irreplaceable treasure and object of desire, as only one person may own the original. Perfectly lit and composed, these polaroids are Bitesnich's images in miniature, the painterly sketches for later works of art. Though as with most artists, the sketches ultimately become artworks in themselves. AUTHOR Andreas H. Bitesnich started his...

A lo largo de las últimas dos décadas en Argentina numerosos documentales participan activamente en las lecturas que se realizan sobre los acontecimientos, muchas veces traumáticos, del pasado reciente. Este libro reflexiona sobre los modos de evocación que adoptan los filmes que reconstruyen las militancias revolucionarias de los setenta, su represión y las consecuencias que esta genera en la sociedad. Estos documentales de memoria se caracterizan por ciertos rasgos comunes como la apelación a los testimonios y la presentación de sus interpretaciones de los sucesos recordados a...