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El universo Frida Kahlo, published under a joint imprint by Editorial RM and the Museo Frida Kahlo, allows us to refresh and bring up to date the rich diversity of themes, ideas, concepts, and emotions generated around two fundamental and iconic figures in modern Mexico: Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera.Based on the 2013 edition, sponsored by Bank of America and produced in collaboration with the magazine Vogue México y Latino américa, this new edition gathers a range of essays by specialists on the various subjects it addresses. In addition, more than three hundred images from the archives of the Museo Frida Kahlo offer readers a glimpse of Frida’s wardrobe, the collections of popular and pre-Hispanic she assembled alongside Diego Rivera, the Blue House, her connection with photography, and other matters. This volume welcomes us into Frida Kahlo’s universe, exploring the legacy of an indispensable figure in the world of twentieth-century art and culture.

In The Merge, the Danish photographers collective Sara Galbiati (1981), Peter Helles Eriksen (1984) and Tobias Selnaes Markussen (1982) explores developments in artificial intelligence and robotics, and visually interprets the possibility that we are already living inside a computer simulation.

Multimedia meditations on consumerism and ecocatastropheMexico City-based conceptual artist Minerva Cuevas (born 1975) is best known for her site-specific interventions guided by social and political research. Envisioned as a research tool itself, this monograph gathers a generous selection of Cuevas' projects from the 1990s through the present.

"To not only see the visible reality but also to feel something invisible." -Akiko KimuraYokohama-based Akiko Kimura (born 1971) is part of a new generation of Japanese photographers whose work treats landscape with extreme sensitivity. The title of the series, i, is the sound /ai/, which is "I" in English and means "love" in Japanese.

The early and innovative fashion photography of the renowned Spanish artistFashion photography occupies an unknown place, although of great importance, in the career of Spanish artist Antoni Miralda. After settling in Paris, Miralda collaborated regularly with the legendary ELLE magazine between 1964 and 1971, often working on contemporary seasonal collections linked to the art world. Among the many spreads produced by Miralda, one stands out for the notoriety of the model who stars in it: the iconic Twiggy.This stunning new volume highlights how influential this early body of work was, both to his own career as well as in the world of fashion photography. While most images at the time featured models in studios, Miralda took these models out into the street: uncodified and unpredictable spaces that required the photographer and his team to make quick yet complex design choices. Faced with the Grand Paris of Haussmann or the Paris of museums and imposing cathedrals, Miralda prefers the blind points of historicist urbanism; popular, unclichéd places with a great human density. No-Flash Fashion, with its contemporary design and its references to fashion magazines and archives, presents for the first time a detailed view of the undiscovered work of one of the most versatile and iconic artists of the 20th century.Antoni Miralda (born 1942) is best known for his "food sculptures" and public performances centered on the ritual of eating. He designed the Food Pavilion at Expo 2000 in Hanover, Germany. In 2018 he won the Velázquez Prize for Plastic Arts, awarded by the Spanish Ministry of Education and Culture.

A revitalized review of more than 80 paintings and sculptures by the renowned Mexican Neo-ExpressionistJulio Galán (1959-2006) was, according to the New York Times, the best-known young Mexican painter of his generation. This volume offers the first comprehensive publication of his work in many years. First "discovered" and published by Warhol, Galán is usually pegged as a Neo-Expressionist whose work shares concerns with luminaries of that tendency such as Julian Schnabel and Francesco Clemente. Galán, though, had a very particular artistic vision. His works, often concerned with pre-Columbian cultures, retablos (nativity scenes) and homosexuality, show the influence of Frida Kahlo, Surrealism and Mexican folk art and employ elements of collage such as beads and dried flowers. Julio Galán: A Rabbit Split in Half includes the first biographical essay on Galán ever published, a glossary on Galan's iconography, archival images, author photographs and contemporary photographs from the 2022 exhibition at the Tamayo Museum in Mexico City.

Polygons, corncobs and geometric patterns make up a world of imaginary figuresDuring the coronavirus lockdown, Mexican artist Alejandro Magallanes (born 1971) compensated for the lack of social contact by creating fantastical people in a notebook. He then invited poet Tedi López Mills (born 1959) to give his characters her personal attention. This book is the result.

Revelation serves as the catalogue for the first retrospective in Spain dedicated to Leonora Carrington (Clayton-le-Woods, United Kingdom, 1917-Mexico City, 2011). A versatile and eclectic artist, continually in search of new forms of expression, she is a key figure in forming a more complete picture of 20th-century art. Ahead of her time in her concern for ecology and women's rights, the Anglo-Mexican artist Leonora Carrington (1917-2011), a key figure of the 20th century Surrealist movement, draws us into a world full of awe and wonder where magic and protest are embedded into every detail. Rebelling against convention, authority and her own heritage, Carrington created fascinating stories of transformation. Her work brims with artistic experiments, occult absurdities and a dark, ironic humour that broadens our understanding of the world. From her alchemical cooking and surrealist writings to her fantastical paintings and drawings "crafted" with ingredients such as a severe feminist critique of oppressive power and a loving care for nature and all its living creatures.

Museum of Passions is the unique publication of the exhibition with the same title that Javier Viver held at the Museo Lázaro Galdiano and the Chapel of the Architects of the Church of San Sebastian (Madrid), between 5 May and 20 September 2020.With this starting point, the author has worked hand in hand with the art historian Horacio Fernández to offer a novel tour of the exhibition in two volumes, one of Word and the other of Image.The first one is composed of an extensive and unconventional conversation between the artist and the historian.The volume of Imagen is a new way of walking through the rooms to discover the invisible. An ascending tour from the entrance of the Lazaro Galdiano Museum to the lantern ofVentura Rodríguez’s dome in the Chapel of the Architects guided by the flight of the dove of the Spirit.

A visual history of an indigenous Mexican theater collective, with photography from a famed lucha libra documentarianOperating across Mexico since 1983, The Laboratorio de Teatro Campesino e Indígena is a mass, communitarian, indigenous and rural theatre collective. This volume traces the group's history through critical essays alongside photos by Lourdes Grobet (1940-2022), known for her documentation of Mexican lucha libre wrestlers.

A photographic project that is an ode to architecture

The project Baja Moda (Low Fashion) explores two key aspects of contemporary Latin American culture: identity and resistance. While working on a previous project across Latin America, I began documenting store fronts and shoe shops still standing unaltered through the passage of time, unconcerned with the tendencies of modern globalized culture, seemingly opposing the economic transition to overseas manufacturing.

The photograms are the result of an eight-year process of acquiring a particular technique and grammar. They are spectacular negative images that oscillate between fiction and traces of reality, between presence and absence.This visual exploration recovers one of the early photographic procedures ΓÇôthe photogramΓÇô, which, through a process of abandoning cultural assumptions, is used as a support to represent a distinct horizontal link with what surrounds us, with nature understood as subject and with primordial culture understand as an equal.The images have been produced with rolls of light-sensitive paper thirty meters long, placed in direct contact with nature, embracing the Amazon rainforest, containing the waves of the Pacific Ocean, and serving as a support for members of Andean communities and dance groups, captured close up, exposed to the lightning bolts of a tropical storm, to the light of the full moon, or to a hand-held flash.All of this is framed within a strategy of deliberate loss of control of the process, in which authorship is transformed into a medium that allows for the appearance of this new visual universe.

Six decades of cityscapes and depictions of social transformation across Latin AmericaBorn in Gorizia, Italy in 1934 and nationalized as Venezuelan in 1954, photographer Paolo Gasparini is a leading figure in modern Latin American photography, known for his unflinching portrayal of the cultural tensions and profound internal contradictions of the American continent. Gasparini has travelled extensively throughout Latin America, from Cuba to Venezuela, where he eventually settled, and beyond, capturing the diversity and visual culture of the region he came to call home. This publication, accompanying the eponymous exhibition, surveys six decades of his photographic career wherein an itinerary through the ever-changing landscapes of cities such as Caracas, La Habana, Sao Paulo or Mexico seems to echo that of Munich, Paris, Madrid or London. The catalog features essays by María Wills, curator of the exhibition, Horacio Fernández, Antonio Muñoz Molina and Juan Villoro, as well as a concise biography of Gasparini by Sagrario Berti.

This volume gathers a surprising and engaging sampling of more than five hundred pieces of printed matter: material that circulated between the 1910s and the 1960s, with prints run of anywhere from a thousand to tens of thousands of copies. These ephemeral, utilitarian publications flooded streets, newspaper stands, bookshops, and homes, in the common aim of disseminating an idealized image of what is considered typically Mexican.Drawn from private collections and the holdings of museums, with no claim to completeness, the material in Mexico: The Land of Charm ranges in size from stamps to posters, and includes supports such as books, illustrated magazines, photography magazines, songbooks and musical scores, almanacs and calendars, tourist guides and maps. The result is impressive, in terms of both individual examples and the collection as a whole: these images are now a part of Mexican history.

This book is the first monograph for children's books by the two most iconic Mexican Illustrators: Jose Guadalupe Posada and Manuel Manilla.

Contemporary photography from Lima's renowned Jan Mulder CollectionThe Lima-based Jan Mulder collection presents its first catalog, featuring 80 works of contemporary photography from 20 different nationalities. Taking Robert Frank's visit to Perú in 1948 as its starting point, this volume presents a chronological survey of the collection.

The first monograph on Raphael Montañez Ortiz, American artist, educator and founder of New York's Museo del BarrioWith more than 200 color images, primary documents, an exhibition history and previously unpublished texts by the artist, this is the first monograph on multidisciplinary artist Raphael Montañez Ortiz (born 1934).

A photographic homage to Mexico City's volcanic stone edificesIn this photo-essay, Pablo López Luz (born 1979) documents buildings in Mexico City that have been constructed using the volcanic stone known as tezontle--a material that evokes the massive forms of pre-Columbian architecture.

Textures and palimpsests of the politicalScratched, scarified and incised photographs depict the grim physical reality of decades of political struggle across various locales in Chile, Argentina, Colombia, Peru, Cuba and Mexico.

A tribute to the streets of Madrid and its people across four decadesGathering a selection of black-and-white works taken between 1984 and 2017 by the well-known photographer Luis Baylón (born 1958), Madrid en plata is arranged in an arresting and dynamic combination of careful sequence and chance interpolation.

A nonlinear survey of Liliana Porter, with special emphasis on her recent theatrical workNew York-based Argentinian artist Liliana Porter (born 1941) works across a range of mediums such as printmaking, sculpture, photography and, more recently, performance, to explore the conflicting boundaries between reality and fiction. Other Situations offers a descriptive account of the eponymous exhibition, a nonlinear survey of Porter's work, organized by the SCAD Museum of Art in Savannah, Georgia, in 2017. It also includes documentation from her play, Them, which was specially commissioned for the show and performed in New York at The Kitchen in 2018 when Other Situations traveled from the SCAD Museum of Art to El Museo del Barrio. This is the first publication to incorporate material related to the artist's theatrical work, a central element that serves as a gateway to understanding the exhibition and the body of work that composes it.

Three years of conflict at the threshold of Europe and RussiaMagnum photographer Jérôme Sessini (born 1968) documents the chaos and banality of life in wartime Ukraine between 2014 and 2017, in photographs and text.

A new, up-to-date retrospective on photography legend Lee FriedlanderOne of the masters of contemporary photography, Lee Friedlander has dedicated his career to the documentation of everyday life in the United States. His images are characterized by a composition that utilizes the urban geometry of storefronts and street signs--and later car windows and telephone poles--as a framing technique. This catalog, published in conjunction with a retrospective organized by the Fundación MAPFRE in Madrid, surveys the wide scope of Friedlander's career from the 1960s to today. High-quality reproductions of all of the exhibited works are supplemented by text written by curator Carlos Gollonet and photographer Nicholas Nixon. The volume serves as a comprehensive guide to Friedlander's body of work, with personal insight provided through an interview between Maria Friedlander and gallery director Jeffrey Fraenkel, as well as a chronology of the artist's life by his grandson Giancarlo T. Roma. Lee Friedlander was born in Aberdeen, Washington, in 1934, and studied photography at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. In 1956 he moved to New York City, which quickly became both the setting and subject of the majority of his work. Friedlander was represented alongside Diane Arbus and Garry Winogrand in the 1967 New Documents exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, now understood as a landmark event in American documentary photography. Friedlander still lives and works in New York, and is represented by the Fraenkel Gallery.

A midcareer survey on Spanish photographer Juan Valbuena through five travelogues This book looks at the career of Juan Valbuena (born 1973) through five photographic series, the earliest from 1999 and the most recent, Dalind, previously unpublished.

Found photographs from the Spanish Civil War dialog with a 1930 Bible in this ingenious and eerie artist's bookIn this beautifully produced artist's book, Spanish photographer artist Javier Viver (born 1971) incorporates archival photographs of the Spanish Civil War and the profanation of religious images into a 1930 pocket edition of the Gospel according to St Matthew.

Prosopagnosia (memory pathology to remember faces) is a project departing from a historial photo archive from a Spanish local newspaper active in the 30ΓÇÖs, devoted to public personalities of the time.This collection of faces is the input for a G.A.N. (Generative Adversatorial Network) algorithm which develops a machine learning process to generate new faces out of the archive portraits (although it could apply it to any kind of archive).The result is a new collection of photorealistic images of non existing persons. The final pictures are convincingly photographic but the focus is mainly set on the wonderful sequence of failed attempts that review important steps in art history: Expressionism, Cubism, Surrealism, Picasso, Bacon, Abstraction and so on..

A portrait of a Peruvian mining townThese 19 photographs by Peruvian photographer Pablo Hare (born 1972) depict the town of San Juan de Marcona, a mining enclave in the Nazca province on the South-Pacific coast of Peru. Built in the 1950s by the American Marcona Mining Company, Marcona has undergone decades of hardship.

The little-known color photography of Manuel Álvarez Bravo, presented in a beautiful cloth binding with a tipped-on cover imageOne of Time Magazine's best photo book of 2019 Manuel Álvarez Bravo produced around 3,000 images in color over the course of his career, though he has tended to be better known for his black-and-white photography. In Color presents more than 80 of his most significant color photographs, many of them published for the first time. A broad spectrum of subject matter is presented in this volume, including photographs of a piece with his familiar style and themes--Mexican culture, street life and countryside, formal portraits, nudes--as well as his little-known color experiments. These works in color greatly expand our understanding of his scope and abilities. A key figure in 20th-century Latin American photography, Manuel Álvarez Bravo (1902-2002) was born in Mexico. Self-taught as a photographer, and influenced by avant-garde photography and (later) the Mexican muralist movement, he developed a very personal style that is now seen as marking the beginning of a true Mexican photography.