La imagen como fábrica

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.

Desde el comienzo una premisa animó la investigación de la que es resultado este libro: si bien durante el conflicto en las capas urbanas hemos visto predominantemente fotografías hechas por fotoperiodistas —sobre todo a partir de los años más intensos, luego de la década de 1980—, mientras la confrontación se prolongó otras personas implicadas directamente en la contienda también hicieron fotos. Hay otras miradas que por mucho tiempo permanecieron ocultas y que apenas, recientemente, empezamos a conocer. Existen fotografías producidas durante la guerra que aún no hemos visto y ...

"The birds, now immobile were organized in a scanner and converted into disturbing [photographic] images that maintain their vigorous splendor, sumptuous colors; the eternal presence of the beautiful "Duino Elegies" where poet Rainer Maria Rilke sings to the lethal birds of the soul and the beauty of the angels that announce their death are the inspirational reference for the artist"--Colophon. Includes short story "The man who spoke with birds" by Ethel Krauze.