Two Million Miles

La belleza de lo inexplicable...María Gloria Torres Mejía, autora polifacética – pintora, escritora y compositora -, tiene un universo propio al que muy pocos consiguen acceder... Es por eso que su narrativa me aporta tanto; porque leyéndola aprendo a sentir que otros mundos hasta entonces utópicos, son posibles. Y empapándome de la trama...adopto el rol del personaje que naufraga sin ahogarse en las aguas embravecidas de talento en su universo único. Amado Storni LA LIBERTAD DE ELEGIR SER ESCLAVO El Heraldo del Henares La autora con gran plasticidad, nos sumerge en diferentes...

Exhibition highlights of the international photographic collection of the Foundation Televisa in Mexico with text by 81 prestigious writers. Each writer was given a copy of a photograph from the collection (from 1840-contemporary digital works) and asked to write an essay. Some of the photographers include: Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Anton Bruehl, Robert Capa, Gisele Fruend, Graciela Itrubide, Alfred Stieglitz, Cindy Sherman, Tina Modotti. Some of the writers include: Dore Ahston, Amitav Ghosh, Alvaro Mutis, Hugh Thomas, Jorge Volpi, Mike Wallace, Elena Poniatowska.

A voyage across Mexico featuring images from the nineteenth century to the year 2001 captures more than one hundred years of photography in Mexico.

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...