EnFoco

Contemporary argentinian photojournalism as published by Clarín. (The worlds largest engish speaking newspaper) (12 essays)

My starting point in each piece are lines of poetry by Vicente Huidobro, the Chilean Surrealist poet.Using the Surrealist poetic concept of the "cut up" as a model, I am creating a new poem from the selected fragments of Huidobro's work. The images in the series are numbered and when placed in order, create a new poem which is autobiographical in nature. (13 color photographs)

René Magritte said that we must not fear daylight just because it almost always illuminates a miserable world, and so it is my intention to present the viewer with several death and misery related issues -- the acknowledgment and denial of death, the cohesion of the self, self-destructive behaviors and alienation -- against the backdrop of humor.In this context, humor is more than a clever device to gain access to the darker sides of ourselves. (12 black and white photographs)

Grete Stern

Grete Stern, born in Germany had to flee from the Nazis in 1935 and went to live in Argentina. She was educated in the School of Applied Arts in Stuttgart as a graphic designer and photographer, something quite unusual for a woman in those days. Among many professional activities, in 1948 she was invited to work in a woman's' magazine called "Idilio". There she would illustrate with photo montages the section called "Psychoanalysis will help you". (12 black and white photographs)

One question I am often asked about this body of work is if it is digitally altered. (12 color photographs)

When I saw the original Mac128k back in January of 1984, I was struck with the revelation that I had found my medium. (13 ilustrations)

When Grégoire, my 8-year old grandson, got back the pictures he took at the zoo, he was disappointed to see all those iron bars and all that concrete surrounding the animals: what his mind perceived and retained may be much closer to what is shown in this Bestiarium. (12 color photographs)

Thus Buenos Aires became for me a valley of nothingness,were values had been turned on their head, where I discovered that to survive I had to blend into the woodwork and make myself into a simulation within a simulation. (12 color photographs)

Joel-Peter Witkin

If photography is the art of fixing a shadow, glass is the medium that transfers shadows onto film. For Joel-Peter Witkin, whose elaborate tableaux reverberate with the extreme conditions of life and death, glassholds powerful associations. ( 10 black and white photographs) PARENTAL or TEACHER GUIDANCE adviced for those 18 years or younger who visit this exhibition.

Oniric Portraits of children taken underwater where the delicate limit between life and death is present in every gaze. (16 color photographs)

Joan Fontcuberta / Pere Formiguera

Lotería Mexicana

Jill Hartley

An American photographer who lives in France has been travellingthroughout Mexico with "lottery eyes". (12 black and white photographs

Luis Delgado Qualtrough

Mariana Yampolsky

In this exhibition "Meditations on Mexico". Yampolsky's gift is finding within the common experiences of the people with whom she shares a life glimpses of something uncommon. (22 black and white photographs)