Archivo etiqueta «Fotografía»
By Ben Macintyre (THE TIMES, 10/09/09):
Lance Corporal Joshua Bernard lies on his side in the Afghan earth, his gun still clutched in his hand. The air is speckled with the dust thrown up by the rocket-propelled grenade that has just been fired from a grove of pomegranate trees, blowing off one of Bernard’s legs.
As the camera shutter clicks, two other US Marines, blurred in their frantic efforts to save his life, are shouting: “Bernard, you’re doing fine. You’re gonna make it.”
The 21-year-old soldier did not make it.
This photograph of the dying Marine, taken by the Associated … Seguir leyendo
Por José Manuel Susperregui, profesor de la UPV-EHU (EL CORREO DIGITAL, 19/08/09):
Cuando se conmemora el 170 aniversario del invento de la fotografía, oficialmente aceptada por la Academia de las Ciencias de París, sigue vigente la discusión sobre la veracidad o no de la fotografía ‘Muerte de un miliciano’ de Robert Capa, que se convirtió en el icono principal de nuestra Guerra Civil.
Desde su invención, la fotografía ha conocido un largo recorrido tanto técnico como temático, supeditado este segundo recorrido al primero, porque al principio la novedad de la fotografía fue la perfección de su imagen considerada como … Seguir leyendo
By Isabel Hilton (THE GUARDIAN, 27/09/08):
Federico Borrell García, a young Republican militiaman in the Spanish civil war, died, it now seems certain, on September 5 1936, shot by Francoist rebels on a hillside in Cerro Muriano near Cordoba.
His death might have gone unremarked, except that the image of that moment was celebrated for 40 years as one of the most famous war photographs of the 20th century. It was not Borrell’s name that was famous – his identity was established only relatively recently – but that of Robert Capa, whose reputation was made by the photograph. Then, in … Seguir leyendo
By Errol Morris, a filmmaker who writes the Zoom column for The Times online (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 13/07/08):
Newspapers and blogs are once again filled with a story about a digitally altered photograph. A picture of missiles launched by Iran. A picture that purports to show four missiles being fired rather than the three shown in other photographs of the launching. Are we to infer that no missiles were launched? Or just three? Or maybe only two? Take several steps back. Are we being tricked into thinking that Iran is a bigger threat than it is?
Oddly enough, … Seguir leyendo
By Peter Preston (THE GUARDIAN, 21/04/08):
It is the eyes that haunt you: young, wide eyes full of innocence and hope; narrowed, blank eyes filled to the brim with despair. They are the eyes of times past, but still they follow you round the room of a remarkable new exhibition (in a remarkably unlikely place). They are the eyes of a continent betrayed.
In 1961, fresh down from university, my friend Tom Sharpe (creator of Wilt and Porterhouse Blue) left England to work and teach in apartheid South Africa. Thank God for TB, they told him in Jo’burg: so many … Seguir leyendo
By Mark Lawson (THE GUARDIAN, 15/02/08):
It’s always a poignant moment when technology once cutting-edge begins to be edged out. Dealing recently with a company that still insists on taking orders by fax machine felt like being in one of those Edwardian shops where money and receipts pinged around the eaves in cylinders on wires. And now, this week, we read the obituaries of the Polaroid.
The special smelly, sticky film that made scenes and faces appear magically in your palm – or, in lower temperatures, under your armpit – will no longer be produced because cleaner, even quicker digital … Seguir leyendo
Por Daniel Giralt-Miracle, crítico de arte (EL PERIÓDICO, 06/01/07):
Por su forma de ser, por su actuación y por su proyección nacional e internacional, no hay duda alguna de que Carles Fontserè encaja perfectamente en lo que Josep Pla llamaba homenot. Más aún, Fontserè es, a mi parecer, una de las personas más significativas de la Catalunya moderna. Personalmente, debo reconocer que es uno de los seres más atractivos e interesantes que he conocido jamás, tanto por su imponente presencia física, como por la energía personal que irradiaba y la libertad con que se expresaba. Coherente con sus … Seguir leyendo
By Richard Cohen (THE WASHINGTON POST, 26/09/06):
Thomas Hoepker’s photo “Brooklyn, New York, September 11, 2001″ has achieved a kind of notoriety. It shows five young New Yorkers on that vividly beautiful late summer day, seemingly sunning themselves on the Brooklyn waterfront as the collapsed World Trade Center smolders in the background. The photo appears to catch the five chatting, ignoring the horror on the other side of the river. It has been interpreted as yet another example of indifference or the compulsion to return to normal even though, as anyone can see, there is nothing normal about what is … Seguir leyendo
Viaje a las tinieblas de Diane Arbus. Tomás Eloy Martínez es escritor argentino (EL PAIS, 06/06/05).