Bogotáviva

"Sólo ella y yo en ese espacio nuestro, el audaz fotógrafo de Brooklyn y la mujer más sensual del mundo." Bert Stern El deseo de fotografiarla debió de nacer en ese momento. El germen de una idea aún prematura. En 1962 estoy bastante seguro de mí mismo y de mi trabajo de fotógrafo para medirme con Marilyn.

An incomparable portrait artist and Colombia's most outstanding photographer of the second half of the 20th century, Hernán Díaz is a cultured and versatile professional. Together, the hundred black-and-white photographs collected in this book form a gallery of Colombia's most important social, cultural, and political figures from the 1960s to the present day. Though the subjects are often public figures, Díaz's evident comradery with them brings a rare intimacy to their portraits. A critical study of his work accompanies the reproductions. En la fotografía de escenas y de gentes...

"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 ...

La obra se centra en las formas en que la ficción ha invadido la fotografía en las últimas décadas: la parodia de la tradición científico-documental del medio fotográfico, su propensión a la invención de relatos, la representación de escenas de una supuesta intimidad no invadida y la construcción hiperralista de espacios ficticios y personajes artificiales.