Fotografien

Postales íntimas de los placeres más transgresores Concebido como un mosaico de episodios, vivencias, costumbres y personas, «La Barcelona erótica» se adentra, con más de 200 fotografías históricas, en las mil intimitades de unos años donde la ciudad cosmopolita iba escribiendo los capítulos para nuevas fantasías: desde el primer «topless» a las tiendas de condones, desde el barrio Chino a los «meublés» más frecuentados o desde los «sex-shops» a los espectáculos del mítico Bagdad. Postales teñidas de placer y deseo, en una Barcelona entre pagana y puritana, pero que no...

La Mirada (the gaze) presents nine outside their country almost unknown Latin American artist-photographers. The works of the last 20 years range from straight photography to the staged image. This title describes not only gaze of the camera directed towards a specific subject, but also the artistic attitude and mental approach of the nine artists and their diverse views on photography.

A look at the work of sixteen postwar Mexican photographers--including Tina Modetti, Flor Gardegno, and Eugenia Vargas--shows how the photographers explore traditional themes in Mexican culture with innovative styles.

"The birds, now immobile were organized in a scanner and converted into disturbing [photographic] images that maintain their vigorous splendor, sumptuous colors; the eternal presence of the beautiful "Duino Elegies" where poet Rainer Maria Rilke sings to the lethal birds of the soul and the beauty of the angels that announce their death are the inspirational reference for the artist"--Colophon. Includes short story "The man who spoke with birds" by Ethel Krauze.