Realidades y deseos

Seguramente alentado por tantos años de amistad y porque siempre fue un entusiasta de mi obra fotográfica, Guillermo Gasió me insistió en que yo escribiese mis memorias. "¿Yo? ¿Hablando sobre mí? No, ni loca. Hacelo vos, si querés. Yo te ayudo si te hace falta." Y así fue como Gasió vino a mi estudio con Mariana Docampo. Fueron cinco años de trabajo en que fui respondiendo a sus interminables sesiones de entrevistas y en que por primera vez abrí mi archivo para una tan extensa investigación. Queda en sus manos, amigo lector, este libro en que veo reflejada mi vida como mujer,...

Anthological exhibition of Cuban photography, fifty artists and one hundred images allow an extensive tour of the development of photography in Cuba since its arrival on the island in 1840 to the present. With this exhibition, curated by the specialist Rafael Acosta de Arriba, the exhibition of Cuban photography returns to the Museum's halls. Somehow a similar attempt was made in 1983, when another representative sample of our photography was deployed to date. For the occasion, a catalog has been published in which several specialists discuss photography in Cuba, prominent women photographers ...

FotoFest 1992, a major festival of international photography, brought Latin American photography into focus for a wide audience. Offering a diverse selection of photographers, countries, artistic movements, and subject matter, the show revealed a photographic tradition rich in history and creativity. Drawing from the more than 1,000 images exhibited by FotoFest, this book documents the work of fifty-two photographers from ten countries. The photographs range from the opening of the Brazilian frontier in the 1880s to a secret archive of documentary images from El Salvador's recent civil war to ...