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Poca luz alude a la frase Ópoca madre", empleada popularmente en Mexico para expresar indignación o admiración. ÓEs la situación del Mexico de hoy", según Ivan Alechine. ÓLa luz se pierde. Aquí como en otras partes".Fotografo y escritor belga, Alechine se cuestiono en los noventa la interrelacion entre el daño ecologico y la perdida de sentido comun. John Lilly, Jr. le sugirio: OSi quieres convencer a los periodicos de que hay urgencia, toma fotos, muestralas y luego vende tus articulos".Mexico lo enfrento con la realidad. Con gafete de prensa mexicana, recorrio todo el pais y la fotografia asumio su propio peso, su independencia.Poca luz es el libro de un Mexico del amanecer, azulado, donde Alechine parece estar a la deriva.

In early 1923, Edward Steichen was offered the prestigious position of chief photographer for "Vogue" and "Vanity Fair." This work features iconic images--including Gary Cooper, Greta Garbo, and Charlie Chaplin--that represent the high point in Steichen''s career.

This stunning assembly of work was personally selected by Erwitt himself. Most of these images have never been published before. The generous trim size and large number of double-page spreads allow you to admire the master's technique and artistry up close. Every image is photography at its most ebullient and life-enhancing and each reflects the scope of Erwitt's observant and eclectic eye. Here is a fitting tribute to this Magnum photographer who has shot such Hollywood legends as Marlene Dietrich and Marilyn Monroe, yet whose delight in everyday irony has captured many witty moments, including his famous portraits of people and their dogs.

Les fotografies d''"Arquitectura, plaer de la mirada"- escriu Luis Fernández-Galiano en aquest nou llibre de Joaquín Bérchez- "remeten, més que a la vetusta ''venustas'' vitruviana, a la ''voluptas'' d''Alberti, un genui plaer sensual i desig erotic no diferent del que manifestaven els personatges de la ''Hypnerotomaquia Poliphili'', que aspiraven a fer l''amor entre ells i amb les obres d''arquitectura desdibuixant els limits entre cossos i edificis, un poc a la manera de Nietzsche que s''imaginava transformat en les pedres i els portics dels palaus genovesos, passejant-hi com si recorregues el seu propi interior, i aixi ens provoquen les teves fotografies, que ens mouen a tocar i acariciar els detalls que representen amb voluptuosa minuciositat, potser com el Jacques Herzog que es va filmar llepant una maqueta"

EXIT Express #50 La Ciudad: Propuestas para el cambioEl paisaje de la ciudad contemporánea es el protagonista del número de marzo de la revista EXIT Express, en el que tanto el Tema Central, dedicado a explorar la homogeneizacion en el paisaje de las ciudades contemporaneas y las respuestas ofrecidas por el arte contemporaneo, como la Entrevista Central, centrada en repasar la trayectoria del arquitecto y teorico catalan Oriol Bohigas, completan un detallado analisis de los intereses que guian los actuales modelos de planificacion metropolitana a escala global. La seccion de Exposiciones incluye reseñas de las exposiciones NIET NORMAAL, La diferencia expuesta (Beurs van Berlage, Amsterdam), que ilustra la realidad cotidiana de las personas minusvalidas; Double Bind (Villa Arson, Niza), que aborda los conceptos de transmision y traduccion de la obra de arte contemporanea; Barock, Arte, ciencia, fe y tecnologia en la edad contemporanea (MADRE, Napoles) que da cuenta de la pervivencia del barroco en el arte contemporaneo; y Malas Calles (IVAM, Valencia), que analiza el arte del siglo XX a traves del paisaje de la ciudad. En Perfiles, se analiza el trabajo y la trayectoria de diez artistas: Regina de Miguel, Luz Broto, Carlos Schwartz, Matias Sanchez, Tanit Plana, Fabiola Torres-Alzaga, Adrian Villar Rojas, Miroslaw Balka, Cao Fei y el colectivo The Yes Men.Y las habituales secciones de Zona Cero (sobre arquitectura sostenible), Mercado (con especial atencion a los resultados de ARCOmadrid_2010, a traves de las palabras de sus protagonistas, los galeristas), Version Original (centrada en dos festivales cinematograficos: Punto de Vista y Rotterdam); Convocatorias (con toda la informacion sobre premios, becas y concursos), Grafistmos (seccion sobre comic e ilustracion a cargo de Felipe Hernandez Cava, Premio Nacional de Comic 2009), Publicaciones (con una entrevista a Hans Ulrich Obrist), Noticias y Bob Deler, la tira comica de Cava & Keko para EXIT Express.

Callout: My hope is that my work is in some way counter-pinup. A pinup asks you to suspend interest in who the person is and occupy yourself entirely with looking at the body, fantasizing about what you could do with that body, completely ignoring how the person might feel about it. People who make pinup photographs don''t care who the woman is, what tragedies or triumphs that person''s life might encompass. My work hopefully works exactly counter to that. My ambition is that you look at the pictures and realize what complex, fascinating, interesting people every single one of my subjects is. --Jock Sturges, the "Boston Phoenix" Long known for his radiant black-and-white naturist portraiture, Jock Sturges has also been quietly working in color for more than two decades. "Life Time" presents a broad range of this color work for the first time and carries forward Sturges'' extended portraits of families in Northern California counter-culture communities and on French naturist beaches. Working with the same models and their families in his long-term studies of growth, change and relationship, his large format images borrow significantly from classical periods in both photography and nineteenth and early twentieth century painting. The large color plates in "Life Time" represent almost perfect one to one translations of the original transparencies and are rich with detail and physical and psychological nuance. Sturges describes his work as "identity driven" because his portraits represent collaborations that stretch over entire lifetimes. The confident ease with which all of his subjects present themselves to his camera evidences a rare level of trust and friendship.

The highly anticipated first body of work in colour by Eugene Richards (b.1944), one of Americas greatest living social documentary photographers.A moving, eloquent and highly personal work on the abandoned and forgotten houses of the American West that brings together themes that encompass all of Richards work and address what he describes as the transient nature of things Richards contemplative, beautiful photographs inspire us to imagine the lives of the former occupants and enigmatic images such as a wedding dress hanging in a bedroom, family photographs stuck on a wall, or snow falling on a bed by an open window, are a meditation on memory and loss The latest publication from the author of Phaidons The Fat Baby (2003) and Dorchester Days (2000) is a quiet, yet powerful, statement on the vulnerability of man in the face of shifting economic opportunities and the climate Eugene Richards is best known for his books and photo essays on cancer, drug addiction, poverty, emergency medicine and paediatric HIV. His intense vision and unswerving commitment have led him to become arguably Americas greatest living social documentary photographer.

Urbs mínima (realizada entre 2003 y 2008) es una serie centrada en sitios donde se dan los elementos mínimos necesarios para que el concepto de espacio urbano pueda manifestarse y ser identificado sin dificultad. Es un ordenamiento del espacio tridimensional y vital mediante el prisma bidimensional de la fotografia. Imagenes de la geometria urbana que recrean los espacios, hermeticos y vacios, por donde distraidamente callejeamos, lugares sin singularidad topografica aparente, sin relevancia intrinseca reconocida, observados desde la tradicion de la fotografia arquitectonica, con el control tecnico de la perspectiva que le es caracteristica. Sin embargo, si en las viejas albuminas habia la singularidad de la catedral o el monumento, los sitios aqui mostrados se hacen singulares en la medida que poseen el concepto abstracto de espacio urbano, en la medida en que reclaman la atencion del fotografo porque responden, en su individualidad, a esa idea generalizadora. Son rincones anonimos de las mas variadas ciudades (Paris, Milan, Estocolmo, Londres, Berlin, Munich...), perfectamente localizables con precision de GPS, y, gracias a la tecnologia digital, perfectamente datables en el tiempo. Son espacios y momentos facilmente acotables por su caracter individualizado y por su forma singular, pero en el fondo, configurador de una sola unidad temporal y espacial, de aquella unidad que genera en nosotros la misma idea de ciudad

Researched, photographed, and compiled over 20 years, Peter Beard's End of the Game tells the tale of the enterprisers, explorers, missionaries, and big-game hunters whose quests for adventure and "progress" were to change the face of Africa in the 20th century. This landmark volume is assembled from hundreds of historical photographs and writings, starting with the building of the Mombasa Railroad ("The Lunatic Line") and the opening-up of darkest Africa. The stories behind the heroic figures in Beard's workTheodore Roosevelt, Frederick Courtney Selous, Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen), Denys Finch-Hatton (the romantic hero of Out of Africa), Philip Percival, J. A. Hunter, Ernest Hemingway, and J. H. Patterson (who became famous as the relentless hunter of the "Man-Eating Lions of Tsavo")are all contextualized by Beard's own photographs of the enormous region. Shot in the 1960s and '70s in the Tsavo lowlands during the elephant-habitat crisis and then in Uganda parks, Beard's studies of elephant and hippo population dynamics document the inevitable overpopulation and starvation of tens of thousands of elephants and rhinos.

Spanning a spectrum from vampish intrigue to retro glamour, celebrity and beauty photographer Matthew Rolston offers us a unique series of photographic portraits. With painterly skill, Warhol''s protAgA combines elements of style, staging, light and color to create indelible impressions of some of the world''s most scintillating and talented people, such as Angelina Jolie, Johnny Depp, Penelope Cruz, Drew Barrymore and Salma Hayek. Rolston''s photographs build a stage for his characters, imbuing them with the iconic power of vintage Hollywood at its peak. His distinctive work has been featured in such leading publications as Interview, Harper''s Bazaar and Rolling Stone, among many others.

El autor crea fotografías, orgullosamente ambiguas, conscientes de que, en su condición de fragmentos, son capaces, como sucede con los hologramas, de contener una recreación imprecisa, pero completa