How You Look at it

"The afternoon has always been the best time of day for taking a walk. And every metropolitan city of the world has an artery by which to travel its tidal pulsations. Barcelona would be inconceivable without La Rambla."--Front cover.

Located halfway between Los Angeles and Yuma, Arizona, Indio came into being as a railroad town in 1876 when the Southern Pacific Railroad completed this last link in its southern transcontinental route. Settling this arid land took ingenuity and courage, and Indio’s early residents had both. In the 1930s, Indio became a mining town when 92 miles of tunnel were dug through its eastern mountains for the Los Angeles Aqueduct, the largest construction project in the United States during the Depression. World War II brought Gen. George Patton’s Desert Tank Corps to train nearby and crowd into ...

La controversia sobre si la fotografía es arte lleva mucho tiempo en el mundo del arte y no es probable que la resuelvamos completamente aquí. Pero puede ser una decisión importante que debe tomar si está considerando una carrera en fotografía con el objetivo de producir obras de arte de calidad. Si es así, la idea de que alguien diga "Esto no es arte, solo tomaste una foto" es bastante inquietante. Por lo tanto, vale la pena analizar la pregunta desde varios ángulos diferentes antes de elegir de qué lado pesar. Por supuesto, el arte es algo subjetivo. Mucha gente miraría una obra de ...

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...