The Latin American photographer has the possibility, and the means, for naming the things of our world, for demonstrating that there is another kind of beauty, that the faces of the First World are not the only ones. These Indian, black, plundered white and mestizo faces are the first element defining the demographic content of our photography.
...photography can lie as convincingly as literature or painting. The angle, the selected content, the assumed context. - Edmundo Desnoes
...photography can lie as convincingly as literature or painting. The angle, the selected content, the assumed context.
- Edmundo Desnoes
Photography has fooled the world. There's no more convincing fraud. Its images are nothing but the expression of the invisible man working behind the… - Edmundo Desnoes
Photography has fooled the world. There's no more convincing fraud. Its images are nothing but the expression of the invisible man working behind the…
Photographs offer more than decisive moments. They are not alone, they add and subtract and change with time. They are metaphors for our lives... Eve… - Edmundo Desnoes
Photographs offer more than decisive moments. They are not alone, they add and subtract and change with time. They are metaphors for our lives... Eve…
The richness of our contemporary visual world must be seen as a danger. It is an overwhelming and oppressive world. A world that manifests itself fun… - Edmundo Desnoes
The richness of our contemporary visual world must be seen as a danger. It is an overwhelming and oppressive world. A world that manifests itself fun…
Images, the visual power of present-day capitalism, like the ritual constructions of ancient Egypt, are refined ways of inhibiting and crushing man. - Edmundo Desnoes
Images, the visual power of present-day capitalism, like the ritual constructions of ancient Egypt, are refined ways of inhibiting and crushing man.
Photographs are detonators. They explode in us. We are the gaze as well as the gazed-at. The observer and the observed. - Edmundo Desnoes
Photographs are detonators. They explode in us. We are the gaze as well as the gazed-at. The observer and the observed.
Weston's sensual texture or Cartier-Bresson's implacable composition are apt to close over themselves, attaining the perfection of a certain sensual … - Edmundo Desnoes
Weston's sensual texture or Cartier-Bresson's implacable composition are apt to close over themselves, attaining the perfection of a certain sensual …
The Latin American photographer has the possibility, and the means, for naming the things of our world, for demonstrating that there is another kind … - Edmundo Desnoes
The Latin American photographer has the possibility, and the means, for naming the things of our world, for demonstrating that there is another kind …
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