Two Million Miles

Profusamente ilustrado con fotografías del propio autor y de grandes maestros, como Ansel Adams y Brett Weston, profundiza en una variedad de estilos y explica cómo estos modifican la interpretación de la fotografía. Incluye una clase completa paso a paso sobre el revelado de película en blanco y negro y cubre los últimos programas y aplicaciones.

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...

Al mediar el siglo XIX, la fotografía mexicana era una actividad que no gozaba del espacio social que toda forma cultural necesita para desenvolverse: emancipada apenas de la primera impresión que produjo--semejante, en más de un sentido, a la que causó el cinematógrafo medio siglo más tarde--pero aún lastrada por obstáculos técnicos que impedían el registro instantáneo y la reproducción masiva, no era fácil augurarle un futuro promisorio. Vino la guerra, sin embargo, y la gran historia desbrozó el campo a la fotografía. En el punto culminante del conflicto interno que sacudió ...