Sin miedo al retrato

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.

Mi Cuba is a great gallery of true-life pictures on Cuba and a whole gamut of images spanning from the typical postcard to an ordinary person's day-to-day life. This book unveils the real face of the island through the nostalgic pages and writings of political refugees, along with the scorching visula commentary of photagrapher Stefanono Pacii recounting Cuba's special period. Gordiano Lupi's content describes the manifold aspects of Cuba's culture: music, santeria, literature, habits, superstition, fun and cuisine.

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...

"Follows a fictional Sheffield band from Mexico, in the style of legendary magazine 'The Face' ... The context of the event [Art Sheffield 05] was 'Spectator T', a fictitious art goer without exposure to contemporary aesthetics, and the idea was to present artworks that would challenge this person's preconceived ideas about art. Thus, Toledo created a cover band that sang songs by local Sheffield groups, and named it after the cult Sheffield nightclub, The Limit, which closed in 1992. The band was created in Mexico ... where it played one local concert, then came to Sheffield, where it played ...