Elizabeth Ferrer Libros
A Shadow Born Of Earth
A look at the work of sixteen postwar Mexican photographers–including Tina Modetti, Flor Gardegno, and Eugenia Vargas–shows how the photographers explore traditional themes in Mexican culture with innovative styles.
La Vida Brinca
La vida brinca—life jumps—and yet we strive to capture its passing moments by creating images. One of the simplest yet most evocative techniques for image-making is pinhole photography. Using a tiny aperture without a lens to shine light on a piece of film, pinhole cameras accumulate light until an image forms. Bill Wittliff calls the
Ricardo Mazal
Pursuing an artistic practice that merges digital technology with his formidable skill as a painter, Ricardo Mazal projects the ancient site of Palenque in a wholly new manner, as he conjures the poetics of a spiritually charged space existing over time. He expresses the site as a complex, multi-layered sphere that begins with the natural
Art Of María Izquierdo
Best known for her engaging portraits and sensuous still lifes, Mexican artist Maria Izquierdo (1902-1955) created a remarkable body of work that is deeply personal and profoundly affecting, yet she has often been overlooked amid the muralists who were her contemporaries.While European modernism was important to Izquierdo, Mexicos traditional culture, popular arts, and rural landscapes
