Gente en el cine

¿Cómo fotografiar un mundo imperfecto? Anna Surinyach (Barcelona, 1985) y Juan Carlos Tomasi (Madrid, 1959) han dedicado su vida a ello. En esta conversación de larga distancia, editada por 5W, comparten su experiencia en crisis nutricionales, desastres naturales y conflictos a lo largo de 144 páginas. El compromiso de la fotografía es una reivindicación del fotoperiodismo reflexivo, que no se detiene solo en el instante y que sirve para contar historias.

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 ...

El presente volumen constituye una valiosa aportación sobre los inicios del cine norteamericano, su inclinación propagandística, su conocimiento del lenguaje de las imágenes en movimiento y también de sus limitaciones en diversos aspectos. Los autores, Juan Felipe Leal y Carlos Arturo Flores, realizaron una exhaustiva investigación en numerosas fuentes secundarias acerca de las películas que representaron la guerra que Estados Unidos y España libraron en Cuba, Puerto Rico y las islas Filipinas y que se filmaron entre enero de 1898 y enero de 1903. Todas ellas muy breves, en promedio...

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...