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Archives of October, 2007

They create the "Oscar" of photography

It was announced today in London the first edition of the World Photography Awards, a competition that aims to be for the photograph, which is the Oscar for the film. It has eleven categories and winning images will be available on April 24, 2008, in Cannes.
Snapshots of professionals and amateurs from around the world will compete [...]

'Nude' Tunick in Miami Beach

U.S. photographer Spencer Tunick today stripped about 600 people at the Sagamore Hotel in Miami Beach, to try to capture with his lens the "energy" and "excesses" of the famous tourist beach.
The entrance to the avant-garde hotel in South Beach began at 08:00 local time, at the close Collins Avenue and some tarpaulins [...]

Exhibit shows the life of Che through photos

The death of Ernesto "Che" Guevara forty years ago gave birth a myth and put an end to a life as a guerrilla fighter and a man of government, but also as son, husband and father, who now shows a photo exhibition opened today in the Circle de Bellas Artes.
The exhibition "Che Guevara. Life in pictures ", [...]

Pictures of the festival adorn Figueroa

The colonial city of Guanajuato, home of the XXXV International Cervantes Festival (FIC), welcomed on the streets these days, an exhibition of photographs of the giant Mexican Gabriel Figueroa, whose lens was used to legendary film directors such as Luis Buñuel, Emilio "Indio" Fernandez, and John Ford.
The eye of Figueroa (1908-1997) was behind more than two hundred films, [...]

Five ways to see the world in a show in Veracruz

The Photo port of Veracruz on Friday inaugurated several ways of viewing the world, with five exhibitions of artists from different latitudes plastics.
This is Sacred Legacy of Edward Curtis; Country Light Photography Workshop on Social Peru TAFOS; MOUNTAINS, the landscape reinterpreted four contemporary artists; Cromófilia the Embassy Lomográfica [...]