Horizontes Digitales

Original newsreel footage from official news agency of Spain, Noticiario Español, or NO-DO, depicting historic events during the Franco regime.

This is an anthropological essay that studies social dynamics of Mexicos city from the perspective of its inhabitants. An analysis about the relationship of their everyday life with the history of the city is made from questionnaires and the exhibitions of images to a group of people- taxi drivers, traffic cops, deliverymen of goods, students, housewives, street sellers and middle class motorists.

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.

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...