25 años explorando el planeta

An evocative celebration of the men of gypsy flamenco culture, from one of contemporary photography’s most gifted artists. Known for his edgy photographs, Ruven Afanador amazes again with another collection of images that will seduce and delight. Following up on Mil Besos—which focused on the women of flamenco—Afanador turns his powerful vision to the men of flamenco, with startling results. Photographed in Andalusian Spain, these unique images present a universe inhabited by gypsies, musicians, and most of all the male flamenco dancers, full of beauty and bravado. Captured in arranged...

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.

Este presente distópico que habitamos a nuestro pesar invita a la evasión, ciertamente, y con ello al kitsch: cuando lo actual no satisface, el pasado es la salida de incendios. Esto es así. Sin embargo, la propuesta que se presenta en Fulgores Vanos: crónicas deslustradas es furiosamente antikitsch, si se permite el neologismo, en cuanto a que no busca el acomodo en aquellos pretéritos que siempre fueron mejores, como dijo aquel, no se apoltrona en la memoria mullida; al contrario, tomando como sujetos y objetos a personajes históricos —la imagen base de muchos de ellos igual a la...