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La Mirada - Looking at Latin American Photography Today
Edited by
Daros-Latinamerica, Zürich,
Hans-Michael Herzog
Essay by
David Levi Strauss
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Approx. 500 pages, 105 large-size plates in color and duotone, 24 x 30 cm, linen binding, 2 vols. in a matching slipcase Texts in English, German, Spanish, and Portuguese ISBN 3-905597-36-5 Price: CHF 98,-
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La Mirada - Looking at Latin American Photography Today La
Mirada (the gaze) presents the entire panoply of contemporary artistic
output in Latin America on the basis of the medium of photography. The
rich spectrum of works by these artist photographers, dating from the
past two decades, ranges from straight photography to the staged image.
Of great stringency both in content and form, the quality of the photographs
undoubtedly holds its own in western artistic production. Representing
countries from Chile to Mexico and Cuba, these photographers now form
part of the Swiss Daros Latin America Collection, which already ranks
among the world's leading collections of contemporary Latin American art
and is now presenting some of its works to the public for first time.
Most of the artists on view here are insufficiently or even entirely unknown
in this country. Their mature artistic positions await discovery. The detailed presentation of each of the artists is complemented with an essay by David Levi Strauss. In a companion volume, extensive conversations with the artists, conducted by Hans-Michael Herzog, the director of the Daros Latin America Collection and curator of the exhibition, give insight into the mental and artistic worlds of the photographers, whose profound reflections offer decisive keys to an understanding of the current cultural scene in Latin America.
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