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With Torero, Ruven Afanador juxtaposes the incredible beauty of young bullfighters and old-world Latin traditions with a couture-inspired vision of the opulent costumes and the ritualistic elements of the matador culture, and narcissism, an integral aspect of fashion photography. Afanador opens the door to the famously closed society of bullfighters, offering his elegant, private view of the young matadors raised in a centuries-old Latin tradition, capturing their balletic beauty, and their distinctly erotic aura. Through these iconic portraits, Afanador also gorgeously documents the...

Anthological exhibition of Cuban photography, fifty artists and one hundred images allow an extensive tour of the development of photography in Cuba since its arrival on the island in 1840 to the present. With this exhibition, curated by the specialist Rafael Acosta de Arriba, the exhibition of Cuban photography returns to the Museum's halls. Somehow a similar attempt was made in 1983, when another representative sample of our photography was deployed to date. For the occasion, a catalog has been published in which several specialists discuss photography in Cuba, prominent women photographers ...

A comienzos de la década de los ochenta, se editó Toledo en la fotografía del Alguacil, 1832-1914 un magnífico libro realizado por historiadores toledanos a través del que se rescató del olvido, y se dio a conocer, la figura de Casiano Alguacil. Mediante este estudio, resultado de una labor de investigación en bibliotecas, hemerotecas y archivos fotográficos de distintas instituciones, se pretende demostrar el merecido lugar que Casiano Alguacil ocupa dentro de la historia de la fotografía, ya que, sin duda, fue uno de los mejores fotógrafos españoles de la segunda mitad del siglo...