Dialogo de bancas / Benches Dialogue

Ya no hay lugar / There's no place anymore by the greatest Surrealistic sculptor, Leonora Carrington.

Dialogo de Bancas / Dialogue of the bench

Part 4. Clockwise: Waiting for a friend by Miguel Alvarez del Castillo. Open Letter by Irma Palacios. Myriapod 500 by Teodoro Gonzalez de Leon. Maguey by Carlos D. Soto.

Dialogo de bancas / Dialogue of the bench

Part 3.- Clockwise: Flag Bench by Francisco Castro Leñero. Sitting on the grass by Ana Maria Lozada. The hen bird bench by Pablo Weisz. Merkabá ( Celestial Chariot ) by Saul Kaminer.

 

Dialogo de bancas / Dialogue of the bench

Part 2.- Clockwise: Silence share weave by Hersúa. Obeliscoves by Vicente Rojo. Nest by Hector Esrawe. There's no place anymore by Leonora Carrington, in the background, by the same artist, her work Crocodile Fountain. 

Dialogo de Bancas / Dialogue of the bench

Open yesterday over Paseo de la Reforma, main street of the city, a collection of 71 works made of steel and bronze by sculptors, architects and industrial designers, bench to talk, kiss and love. Clockwise: Sit down feel at home by Naomi Siegman. Reef bench by Roger Von Gunten. You and I and Them by Horacio Duran. Bench for a pair of lovers by Eloy Tarcisio. Orig. idea by Isaac Masri.

http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2006/12/04/index.php?section=cultura&article=a11n1cul

Chinatown

Chinatown at evening & splendid food!

 

Llama - Flame

Flame by Sebastian with shadow.

 

Tina Modotti's House

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tina_modotti

She was a photographer, model, silent film actress, and leftist who once playfully described her profession as "men." She acted in several silent movies in the early 1920s and later became a model for prominent photographers and artists of the time.

… Modotti is thought to have been introduced to photography as a young girl in Italy, where her uncle, Pietro Modotti, maintained a photography studio. Years later in the U.S., her father opened a similar studio in San Francisco, where her interest undoubtedly developed further. However, it was her relationship with Edward Weston that was to allow her to gravitate upward to become a world class photographer. Mexican photographer Manuel Alvarez Bravo divided Modotti’s career as a photographer into two distinct categories: "Romantic" and "Revolutionary." The former period includes her time spent as Weston’s darkroom assistant, office manager and, finally, creative partner. Together they opened a portrait studio in Mexico City and were commissioned to travel around Mexico taking photographs for Anita Bremmer’s book, "Idols Behind Altars." During this time she also became the photographer of choice for the blossoming Mexican mural movement, documenting the works of José Clemente Orozco and Diego Rivera. Many of her pictures of flowers originate from that time.

Happy Childhood

Taking a photo of a person from the waist down.

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Pueblo Desesperado / Desperate People

Brave women and men, peasants from Veracruz, rising their demands in the city for their stolen lands, on the last day of the term of V. Fox.

 

Going up to the freeway

Passing this spot I saw this empty space for advertisement and imagine this.

 

Poster para Lila Downs

Poster for Lila Downs, made from a picture I took of one of her street posters. She is an extraordinary Mexican folk singer.
http://www.liladowns.com

The Welder

In this cold morning this view catch my eye.

 

The Firebird / Pajaro de Fuego

Wood-carving by Vianey Frias Salazar.

 

Car-Wash

 

Santa Fe

West part of the city.

 

Street Working Man

A windshield cleaner, unfortunately there are hundreds of them in the streets, living without hope.

 

El Reloj de Pachuca

Clock Tower of Pachuca ( near Mexico City ), closed for repairs.

 

A. Obregon Ave

Peaceful Sunday Afternoon.

 

Toll Road

Going Home.

 

Street Mime

[ Pachuca, near Mexico City ]

 

Rush

I must hurry or What's the Rush.

 

Frida Kahlo & Spider

Street Performance.

We are told that the number of cameras used world wide -standalone and embedded (as in a telephone)- has increased 600% in just the past four years, and it will double again over the next five years.

The total number of cameras sold worldwide, of all kinds, in 2000 was 85 million units. For 2008 the projected sales are ONE BILLION cameras.

There is no question that the increase in the number of cameras has also increased the number of images recorded. The internet has become the most rapidly expanding form of making those images available to everyone, so let us then ask, how is photography going to be transformed by all these changes that are presently underway? How is in fact, is culture being transformed by the phenomenal growth of photography?

Pedro Meyer
Beijing, China
September 2006

http://www.zonezero.com/editorial/editorial.html

Take Off

 

Gift Flowers