La imagen como fábrica

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...

Summary: Ongeziene historische kijk op de Belgische koloniale periode. Carl De Keyzer en Johan Lagae selecteerden uit het archief van het Afrikamuseum in Tervuren meer dan 100 nooit eerder gepubliceerde foto's van Belgisch Congo. Deze beelden werden gekozen omwille van hun revelerende inhoud of sterke beeldkwaliteit. Tegelijk met het boek worden deze beelden ook geëxposeerd in het FotoMuseum Antwerpen van januari tot april 2010. In samenwerking met het Koninklijk Museum voor Midden-Afrika en het FotoMuseum Antwerpen.

Laszlo Moholy-Nagy's 60 Fotos published in 1930 as the first book in the planned Fototek series on 'New Photography', 60 Fotos is a complex and multi-layered dialogue using some of Moholy-Nagy's finest examples of 'straight' photographs, negative prints, photograms, and photomontage. Books on Books no. 12 reproduces every page spread from this classic treatise on photography along with a contemporary essay from the noted photo-historian David Evans

"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 ...