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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.

Blending documentary and conceptual photography, de Middel's account of migrants traveling to California brings the plight of immigration into harsh reliefCristina de Middel (born 1975), the first Spanish head of Magnum Photos, has been traveling for years with Mexican migrants on the train they call "the beast" interviewing sicarios (hired killers) and talking for hours with "coyotes" (clandestine smugglers) and police officers. She combines her own photographs with objects found in the desert and archival footage, creating a multi-layered narrative that evokes the hardships and dangers of searching for a better life. The journey begins in Tapachula, a city on the southern border of Mexico with Guatemala, and ends in Felicity, a small town in California dubbed the "Center of the World." This saga is punctuated by the accounts of three migrants recounting their crossing, as well as a commentary by the artist. An afterword by Mexican journalist Pedro Anza illuminates the issues at stake and the human consequences of the United States' obsession with closing its borders.

Subverting methods used by early colonizers, Moreno's "info-photographic" plates approach the American landscape from a decolonized, gendered perspectiveUsing her images of abandoned Ark-La-Tex drive-in theaters, Spanish artist Linarejos Moreno (born 1974) explores the canonical identity of Americana to sublime effect. Her work also serves as a sociological history of US geography, beginning with early explorations by Alexander von Humboldt.

Revisiting the work of an overlooked female Spanish painter who was both a friend and contemporary of Picasso and GrisThis catalog offers a chronological journey through the different stages in the artistic life of the Spanish painter María Blanchard (1881-1932), who developed a unique style of Cubism in her short career. After moving to Paris in 1916, she met many Cubist artists and became close friends with Juan Gris. Her work evolved into a more figurative and traditional style over the years; her paintings became harsh, with bright clashing colors and melancholic themes. The vast body of work she left behind, including maternity scenes and domestic scenes, reflects a heartfelt concern for human vulnerability. This aspect is reinforced by a meticulous technical mastery and a keen interest in the history of European painting. Because her work was largely overlooked during her lifetime, this monograph aims to highlight the symbolic richness and innovative character inherent in her work.

Remnants of the historical past overlaid with the work of material erosionIn the Roma project, David Jiménez (born 1970) arranges his photographs of various rock formations--statues, ruins and monuments--to investigate the transformative power of time and its ability to generate new meanings.

Toro-Goya's representative series of "Baroque Documentarianism" dedicated to the memory of the vanishedIn commemoration of the 50th year since the 1973 civil-military coup in Chile, photographer Mauricio Toro-Goya (born 1970) delves into the harrowing subject of forced disappearances, in partnership with the Association of Relatives of Disappeared Detainees from La Serena, Chile.

"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.

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 commercial photographer's meditations on space, architecture, material and lightJuan Baraja (born 1984) is an architectural and commercial photographer based in Madrid. This volume gathers his structural photographic images from the past 15 years, including selections from his ongoing personal projects: Utopie Abitative and Euskal Y, both previously unpublished.

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.

A new edition of Yamamoto's much-loved photographic homage to the precarious, the delicate and the humble, with new images and a redesigned coverJapanese photographer Masao Yamamoto trained as an oil painter before discovering that photography was the ideal medium for the theme that most interested him--the ability of the image to evoke memories. Small Things in Silence surveys the 20-year career of one of Japan's most important photographers. Yamamoto's portraits, landscapes and still lifes are made into small, delicate prints, which the photographer frequently overpaints, dyes or steeps in tea. Edited and sequenced by Yamamoto himself, this volume includes images from each of the photographer's major projects--Box of Ku, Nakazora, Kawa and Shizuka--as well as installation shots of some of Yamamoto's original photographic installations, and, in this new edition, seven new images and a new cover. In the words of Yamamoto himself: "I try to capture moments that no one sees and make a photo from them. When I see them in print, a new story begins." Masao Yamamoto (born 1957) lives and works in Japan. He has published numerous books, including a previous edition of Small Things in Silence (RM/Seigensha, 2015) and Tori (Radius Books, 2016). His work is held in the collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the International Center of Photography, New York, and others.

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).

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.

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.

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.