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Monday 18 January at 13:00 inaugurated the exhibition of the Section Officer fotoencuentros10 "Images. 1966-2006" by Manuel Lopez in the Byzantine walls of Cartagena and Where the hell is Wichita?
David Hornback Cultural Center Luzzy Ramón Alonso.
MANUEL LOPEZ "Images.
1966-2006 "
From January 18 to February 27
Byzantine wall.
Cartagena
From 10:30 to 13:30 and from 17 to 20:30 h.
Sundays and Mondays
The national situation
It is not always easy to find images that one would convey something more than what you see, reality.
Often this reality is bound up with feelings and the feelings are so personal ...
But photographs of Manolo Lopez have something that produces feelings in the viewer, to stir the emotions, denial, or sympathy.
Portray the character and expression, the time that almost always goes together with an explosion of life.
The exhibition of Manolo Lopez, an old acquaintance who I have photographed hundreds of times, shows the reality of Spain in recent years with full fidelity.
Its merit lies in being there and giving us the assurance of what has been the Spanish and their transformation into modernity.
One would produce a certain fear about our history so recent and shock us with what we were and what we are.
From Germany in the sixties, with evidence of the presence of Spanish Republicans, who celebrated their special day of work, to the souk today Majadahonda, Manolo has seen progress, frustrations, pains and joys people and has been portrayed as showed in all its harshness, if it was pain in all its brilliance and other joys and celebrations.
We are facing a goal, if objective evidence is the eye that chooses what shows, what has been the life of our country in the past 40 years.
Not the time to reflect on what we've come and what we've progressed as a country, but we can see in this exhibition and catalog, the various moments graphics these forty years that have been the most profound transformation of a country in modern times.
Congratulations, Manolo, for your work, for being there and for having portrayed men and women of this country, known or anonymous, because we have all been important for the transformation of Spain and turn it into the modern country it is today .
Manuel López (Vilasantar, A Coruña, 1946) is a journalist, photographer, editor, writer and teacher.
He studied at the Schule für Fotografie und Biklen fotografik Cologne (Germany) in the sixties.
After a long career as a journalist in the editorial road of enlightened Gazette, Notebooks for Dialogue, The Journal and Time magazine founded in 1982 PHOTO, who has run since then, printed until 2009, and continues publishing formats digital since 1997.
It was the voice for the sector of photography the Drafting Committee of the Intellectual Property Law (1983-87).
Driver of the Injuve Young Photographers Contest (1984).
Founder member of the Editors Forum Graphics Press and author of the Manifesto in the Press Photo Editing (1995-1996).
Author of countless conferences, press articles and essays, has served on juries countless national and international competitions.
Has a history of over thirty years teaching in various schools and universities.
He teaches at the School of Advertising.
Conducts workshops and training courses in journalism, photography, graphic and multimedia editing.
He is author of Photography online course for (not so) stupid P-ES, Spanish newspapers.
The Provincial Council named him "Photographer History."
For this reason we organized a retrospective exhibition Manuel López.
Images 1966-2006 fotoencuentros reaching in its twenty-fifth international roaming.
DAVID HORNBACK "Where the hell is Wichita?"
From January 18 to February 27
Ramón Alonso Luzzy Cultural Center.
Cartagena
From 9 to 14 and 17 to 20 h.
Saturday and Sunday, closed
David Hornback was nearly 40 years when, on a visit to the family home in Kansas, found in the attic an old box of negatives.
Immediately returned to his memory his teens, specifically the summer of 1978, with his camera around his neck in search of scraps of everyday life: "I thought of myself as a hunter on safari in Africa, unprotected, hidden in search dam. I enjoyed it a lot, my brothers and sisters were my natural target. "
A large Catholic family moved from Los Angeles to Wichita, in the middle of nowhere in the exact center of the United States.
A total of 300,000 people, far from everything.
David Hornback had two things in his head, wanted to be a photographer and while preserving their world for the future: "I noticed a picture of a tree which was then in the backyard and now it is. I am fascinated how a photograph can "save" the tree of their total disappearance. At first I began to photograph all the trees in our house after I went to photograph people. "
What is surprising in the work of Hornback is the simplicity of the language used: clean and efficient, something that perhaps only a child can make her look sincere, innocent and poetic.
But it's the eye of an adult professional photographer is 40 years Hornback, who discovers the power of these images and gives a reading more than twenty years later.
The author, who studied photography in the following years, visiting exhibitions, reading books and traveling the world as a reporter, realizes the sincere energy that has "documents" as a teenager.
Selects and delivers beautiful prints in black and white in the light of the Midwestern United States, gives life to the simplest gestures and expressions of purity who surrounds him.
There is nothing superfluous in the photo story of Hornback, making focuses on the stories and details of what happens around him, with a poetic eye.
A lyricism that brings to mind images of Sally Mann, world-renowned artist photographed his children in similar situations, but from a different social perspective and large format camera.
Although emotionally resemble, there remains a clear gap between the spontaneous images created by a young teenager and "study" of the professional.
Hornback, who made the images quite some time before, makes no concession to the temptation, Sally Mann does not leave us the suspicion of deliberate malice which remains true today.
The protagonists of the epic Hornback move with ease and authenticity, regardless of the purpose of looking at them, maybe that's why the result is that magic given off by the images of the youthful author.
Source: Prensa Mar de Músicas
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