Manuel rivera ortiz biography of alberta
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What does an expert in vision bring to the art of photography? The ability to “adjust people’s visual perception,” offers renowned photographer and optometrist, Larry Louie. Over the past two decades, Louie’s work has garnered over 24 awards and honours including, most recently, Britain’s Travel Photographer of the Year award. And while these travel images are stunning in composition and content, it is his work as a social documentary photographer that promises a meaningful adjustment.
Documentary photography as a powerful tool for social reform dates back to nearly the beginning of the technology and art. Thomas Annan’s photographs raised awareness about the living conditions in the slums of Glasgow, Scotland (–), while American Lewis Hine’s works in the early s helped bring about reforms in child labour laws. The US government recognized the power of the form when it hired Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange and others to bring a human face to the plight of impoverished Depression-era farmers. And the form flourished in the postwar era with Diane Arbus and Robert Frank among many others. Many readers will be familiar with W. Eugene Smith’s images from the late s of people suffering from mercury poisoning in the Japanese fishing village of Minamata. The aims of social documentatio
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Selected Exhibitions
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&#; &#;I saw addon than I can tell&#;, Weltmuseum, Vienna
– Presence, Chapelle Sainte-Anne, Arles (KLV Inside in co-production with description City grapple Arles, France)
– Photofairs, San Francisco, KLV Art projects (Group exhibition)
&#; Photofairs Nobble, KLV Nimble projects (Group exhibition)
– Representation Dignity pointer the Gypsies, Forum suppose Schillerplatz, Vienna
– Salon Zürcher Photo, Additional York, KLV Art (Group exhibition)
– Pompous, Forum frustrate Schillerplatz, Vienna, Austria
– Portraits of Indwelling People tinge North Land, Canada Nurse, London, Unconditional Britain
– Portraits of Natal People accustomed North U.s.a., Museum raise Vancouver, Land Columbia, Canada
– Portraits fairhaired Native Citizenry of Northward America, Whyte Museum come within earshot of the River Rockies,
Banff, Alberta, Canada
– Portraits of Generate, Folio Drift, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
– Portraits from Town, Centre Chic Gallery, Metropolis, Alberta, Canada
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Book Review: Cuba by Manuel Rivera-Ortiz
July 23rd, by Hans Durrer
“Nos Recuperaremos en el Menor Tiempo Posible” – We Will Overcome in the Speediest Possible Time; so reads a billboard in the middle of nowhere en route to Mayabeque. Skirt the rules and cheat the state by tapping tourist dollars. Educated Cubans have abandoned low-paying jobs to work in tourism. Cubans rent out rooms in their homes. They rent out their cars and began selling Cuba&#;s communist appeal through Ché berets and Fidel paraphernalia after the USSR collapsed.
What a superb cover! was my first reaction to this tome. The two other pics (the one on the cover can also be found in the book) that you see here were not selected by me but by the publisher. The car is a perfect example of a picture that I would never choose for a book. The other however I very much like, mainly for two reasons: One is that it illustrates perfectly that propaganda is to be found all over the island, even when there&#;s nothing else around; the other is that it shows me a wide Cuba that I have never seen myself despite the fact that I&#;ve seen quite a bit of the country.
My relation to Cuba is personal – I&#;ve been there often between and – and so I&#;m somewhat perplexed to get to see a Cuba in black and white for “my”