La imagen como fábrica

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.

La colección El ojo que ves publica este volumen dedicado a la ganadora del V Premio Internacional de Fotografía Pilar Citoler y una de las fotógrafas europeas más interesantes de la actualidad. Con textos de Quentin Bajac, Kathy Kubicki y Alfonso de la Torre. La obra de Karen Knorr ha generado un hondo compromiso y una fascinación por la taxidermia, los objetos y los espacios; es una práctica conceptual que de forma continua y coherente perturba la mirada institucional. Knorr abarca el pluralismo y la deconstrucción de instituciones, para explorar el lenguaje, el deseo, el género y...

Graphic designer López Castro presents a collection of photographs of street paintings of the Virgin of Guadalupe, a methodological documentation project of a distinctive Mexican folkart he started in 2002 and that culminated in the present book that includes the prologue of anthropologist Roger Bartra. Of the book the author states -"The Guadalupana is the virgin of the poor. That is why in this book I try to make it evident how each Mexican paints her as best as they can, as they need her or with the only purpose of having her present during their daily street walking."