El querido Buenos Aires de Horacio Coppola AbrpmSat, 19 Apr 2008 19:08:15 +0000c07 28, 2008

The Telefonica Foundation is dedicating an extraordinary homenage to founding father of Argentinean photography, Horacio Coppola, including 125 photos and 4 short films, with the attempt to reconstruct Coppola’s original view of the city Buenos Aires and its way to modernity. Coppola’s great series is Viejo Buenos Aires, adiós (1936,) an exquisite collection that conjugates a certain nostalgia for the city’s gradually lost small-town flavor and a fascination with the march of progress.

Also exhibited in this retrospective is a true jewel filmed by Coppola in one of several excursions into cinematography. It is Así nació el obelisco, a 16 mm film now transferred to digital format and presented in a small gallery situated in the middle of the series of photographs. Coppola’s film, his look at the workers that build what was to become the city’s most recognizable symbol, is an invitation to think about the construction of symbols, the historical and affective load carried by the monuments around us. In this case, thanks to Coppola’s opportune intervention and his timely appreciation of the importance of the monster, initially resisted by the citizens, it is possible to see the future in each hit of the hammer and in the balance of the workers —perhaps ignorant of the relevance of their work— and their high beams. Furthermore, the exhibition include the short films Traum (Berlin, 1933), Un dique del Sena (Paris, 1934) and A Sunday in Hampstead Heath (London, 1935).

Coppola was born in Buenos Aires in 1906. He taught himself photography at the age of 21 and was hired to shoot Jorge Luis Borges for the first edition of “Evarista Carriego.” In the late 20s, he came to Europe, travelling to Germany, France, Spain and Italy. The purchase of a Leica in Germany plunge Coppola into street photography. On a second trip to Germany, he studied photography at Bauhaus under the direction of Mies Van der Rohe. until its closure by the Nazis. In 1937 he opened a photo studio together with his German wife Grete Stern with the aim to enter to the advertisement world. Now at the age of 101, the Telefonica Foundation in Madrid is dedicating a retrospective to Horacio Coppola in their new exhibition halls.

Exhibition: 10 April - 25 May 2008

JPG Magazine - revista de fotografía digital AbrpmSun, 13 Apr 2008 17:18:38 +0000c05 28, 2008

JPG Magazine es para gente a que les encanta sacar fotos y que valoran más el momento que la cámara. Es para amantes de la fotografía digital que quiere compatir sus trabajos con la opción de verlos en versión impreso. Es una revista impreso que se publica 6 veces al año en E.E.U.U. pero se puede suscribir también desde el extranjero. Los fotógrafos puedes entregar sus fotos a la pagina web y también proponer sus fotos para la revista impreso. La comunidad de la web puede votar sus fotos favoritos. El más votado puede contar con un bono de la revista impreso y con una publicación en una de ellas.

Ouka Leele inedited AbrpmSun, 13 Apr 2008 16:34:02 +0000c04 28, 2008

Her career started with selling paintings in the street. Many years later, in 2005, Bárbara Allende Gil de Biedma, better known as Ouka Leele, received the Spanish National Photography Prize.

Now the Ministry of Culture is holding an anthological exhibition of her unpublished work in the Costumes Museum Museo del Traje. This Madrid artist, a prominent figure in the Madrid movement, the so called ‘Movida Madrileña’, is given due recognition in this exhibition, which turns out to be a sentimental and artistic review full of life and humanity, almost in the comedian style of an image-based human theater. Outside Spain, her works have been exhibited in Paris, London, Tokyo, Sao Paulo and New York

The exhibition Ouka Leele Inédita gives an opportunity to view less well-known photographs by this artist. With 67 medium and large format works on show, this artistic, sentimental retrospective reflects her technical mastery and constant creativity, ranging from her first black and white photographs right up to digital images taken with a mobile phone or touched up in Photoshop. Also included is the hand-coloured photograph, one of the genres which made her style and technique famous. Unfortunately, she didn´t made any new progresses after that. The exhibition is more a retrospective of her life, from family pictures realized in adolescence, photos from the ‘Movida Madrileña’ to some contemporary works. Nevertheless, a very interesting point is that all these very intimate photos were taken spontaneously, or as Ouka says: ‘without thinking of once being exhibited’

Exhibition: 9 April - 8 June 2008

Foto: Take care in China! AbrpmSun, 06 Apr 2008 13:33:49 +0000c01 28, 2008

Foto: Carlos Hugo Ramírez Zuluaga, 2008

Foto: 100% DDR AbrpmTue, 01 Apr 2008 19:25:19 +0000c07 28, 2008

Foto: Pippa Matson, 2006