Desconfiar de la mirada

En Barcelona se forjó el genio universal de Miró, Dalí, Gaudí y Picasso. Un atractivo recorrido por su geografía urbana, con los comentarios de artistas y visitantes célebres nos da la medida exacta de su cosmopolitismo. Prólogo de Manuel Vázquez Montalbán. Incluye desplegables con fotos panorámicas.

Theoretical-critical texts on photographs taken by different authors and time periods, the violence of the documentary photography and a final reflection on the practice of photography and the possibilities of communication of images. Finally, this book is, as far as possible, provides a look again at the photograph made in Latin America, but trying to do so from the decolonized perspective, from a certain autonomy of thought, from the freedom of enunciation.ʺ (HKB Translation) Page 9.

Christoph Drange travelled to Venezuela in early 2013. He focused his attention on the phenomenon of a socialist society that retains several vestiges of capitalism and is characterised by a culture of inequality.His photographs show the encounter between the aspiration and reality of a socialist country, which actually isn't one. Hecho En Socialismo - Socialism Today in Venezuela is more than a documentary snapshot.It is primarily a reflection and self-questioning on the current potential of a socialist alternative in the face of an all-encompassing, global capitalism.German, English and...