An eternal adventurer, the Spanish photographer ALBERTO GARCÍA-ALIX, who recorded the rebellious years of la movida madrileña, presents his new road companions Motorcycles arrived before photography in Alberto García-Alix’s life. He was 12 years old, not a sign of his trademark side-whiskers yet to be seen, when his parents gave him a yellow Ducati. The […]
The British photographer and researcher James Mollison spent almost three years in colombian photography libraries and collections in search of the drug dealer. With images amassed from police collections and the principal newspapers, and from albums put together by his family and thugs, Mollison reconstructed Escobar’s life. The photographs reveal his public and private life, […]
In an unpublished essay, made in Sao Paulo, CIA DE FOTO collective presents its own take on the demonstrations that took over the city during June 2013. The boy’s bedroom window looked out over the jabuticaba trees, and as he was small, he could only gaze up through their branches from below. The window […]
The pulse of the streets and postwar America in GARRY WINOGRAND’s teeming images When future historians try to retrieve the flavor and feel of the American sixties, an era that already seems legendary and remote, they will find no better resource than the photographs of Garry Winogrand. Other photographers supplied a fuller record of the […]
How a photographer for a provincial newspaper succeeded in documenting both the official and the hidden sides of Mao Zedong’s cultural revolution. Li Zhensheng was just over 25 years old when he made a decision which he kept secret for almost 40 years, unrevealed to those around him. Working patiently and methodically, he tempered fear […]
Em sua investigação obsessiva, que inclui novos pontos de vista, Cepeda subiu num prédio vizinho para construir a imagem de um arranha-céu sem limites, eficaz no modo como se impõe à massa liliputiana que lhe serve de fundo. O amarelo ganha a estridência própria à aplicação de mertiolate, e a paisagem urbana reduz-se a um conjunto revestido por uma pátina ferruginosa, da qual se eleva uma nuvem de poeira, bela como a atmosfera dos planetas inabitáveis.
