Day of the Dead

Fotografías de Toledo y de otros lugares (con su gente, sus costumbres y sus acontecimientos) tomadas a principios del siglo XX por el pintor PEDRO ROMÁN.

Por fortuna, la investigación del fenómeno cinematográfico en México ha sido abundante. Se ha abordando su problemática desde diversos ángulos y con diferentes estilos, produciendo un importante cúmulo de conocimientos. Pero la Historia del Cine es una disciplina siempre inacabada: cada trabajo abre nuevas vetas para la discusión y el análisis de la cuestión y proporciona materia prima para otros trabajos. El volumen 1 (1895: El cine antes del cine) de la colección Anales del Cine en México, 1895-1911 que nos hacen llegar ahora Juan Felipe Leal, Carlos Arturo Flores y Eduardo...

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 ...

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...