Colombia. Un viaje fotográfico

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.

Precedido de El pájaro profeta de André S. Labarthe La digitalización del cine, desde la toma hasta la proyección, amenaza con arrastrarlo dentro de la aceleración generalizada del mundo. Informaciones, espectáculos, publicidades, mercados: lo que aumenta es la presión. Ahora bien, el espectador de cine se resiste a ser tratado como un consumidor de espectáculos. Es una suerte, arte del tiempo, el cine nos invita a entrar en formas y duraciones que no son las de la experiencia habitual. En un mundo saturado de imágenes, el fuera de campo que se abre en el interior de las salas...

Did you know that two winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature (Hemingway and Faulkner) worked on the story of To Have and Have Not (1944)? Did you know that the origin of the term "paparazzi" comes from Fellini’s La Dolce Vita (1960) which has a character called Paparazzo who photographs celebrities? Did you know that David Lean’s Lawrence of Arabia (1962) is the longest film which has no woman speaking part? Did you know that in the first Academy Award competition in 1929, Rin Tin Tin polled more votes than anyone else for the Best Actor, but his name was removed from the list of...

Twenty-seven countries under the gaze of Jordi Bernado, a photographer who collects the places and landscapes he has lived: some comical, some excessive, some implausible. This vision speaks of a world where life continues to alter each and every element that would initially appear well-ordered. The author's course carries us far and wide, making us his travelling companions, indeed his accomplices in the highly personal vision he constructs. Bernado comes across successively as euridte, historian, architect, sociologist, but most often as storyteller. With a perfect mastery of colour ranges, ...