Microgeografías de Madrid

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

With Torero, Ruven Afanador juxtaposes the incredible beauty of young bullfighters and old-world Latin traditions with a couture-inspired vision of the opulent costumes and the ritualistic elements of the matador culture, and narcissism, an integral aspect of fashion photography. Afanador opens the door to the famously closed society of bullfighters, offering his elegant, private view of the young matadors raised in a centuries-old Latin tradition, capturing their balletic beauty, and their distinctly erotic aura. Through these iconic portraits, Afanador also gorgeously documents the...

"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.

El cine ha sido un objeto problemático durante el siglo que lo vio nacer (problemático ya lo era puesto que se trataba de un ente híbrido - un poco de arte, un poco de técnica, un poco de ciencia) y sobre él han surgido discursos contradictorios. A través de las cincuenta preguntas y respuestas que se plantean en el libro, Suzanne Liandrat-Guigues y Jean-Louis Leutrat han pretendido reunir a todos los que durante un siglo han 'pensado' el cine y hacer balance de todo ese pensamiento. Pero el punto de partida es, sin duda, la divertida constatación antropológica de Giorgio Agamben -...