Digitalización y captura de imágenes fotográficas. ARPG0110

Anthological exhibition of Cuban photography, fifty artists and one hundred images allow an extensive tour of the development of photography in Cuba since its arrival on the island in 1840 to the present. With this exhibition, curated by the specialist Rafael Acosta de Arriba, the exhibition of Cuban photography returns to the Museum's halls. Somehow a similar attempt was made in 1983, when another representative sample of our photography was deployed to date. For the occasion, a catalog has been published in which several specialists discuss photography in Cuba, prominent women photographers ...

Nadar, whose real name was Felix Tournachon (1820-1910), was a conspicuous, even astonishing presence in nineteenth-century France. Engaging and quick-witted, he invented himself over and over as a bohemian writer, a journalist, a romantic utopian, a caricaturist, a portrait photographer, a balloonist, an entrepreneur, a prophet of aeronautics. The name "Nadar" was on everyone's lips. Today, it is Nadar's photography that is remembered. His sitters, who were often his friends, included the great men and women of his time: Dumas, Rossini, Baudelaire, Sarah Bernhardt, Daumier, Berlioz, George...

En tanto más pobre, elemental y astroso es un circo, es más poético y expresivo. Los maravillosos cirqueros que dibujó el joven Picasso en su Período Rosa (de una pureza y nitidez que parecen imposibles de alcanzar) y que inspiraron poemas melancólicos de Rilke, no sólo son todos pobres, sino que se mueven en un espacio desolado. Tienen ese aire tristón, indeciso y desamparado de las afueras de una ciudad, aire de límite vacilante, de tierra de nadie. La razón del tono poético nacido de la incuria es que el circo, todo circo, aun los ricos y lujosos, de tres pistas, destilan no sé ...

The charming town of Los Gatos is nestled at the base of the Santa Cruz Mountains and is sometimes referred to as the Gem City of the Foothills. It has inspired hundreds of postcard images through the years, many reflecting the areas abundance of natural beauty. As the town and surrounding area grew and prospered through agriculture, logging, and commerce, the local architecture and landmarks became popular subjects. Glimpses of everyday lifechurches, schools, houses, and businessesfurther enhanced the pictorial history the postcards represent.