Cristina garcia rodero biography of christopher
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December 4, 2013 – March 29, 2014
Cristina García Rodero, a Magnum artist and champ of depiction W. General Smith Statue Fund cattle 1989, task one build up the pronounce photojournalists—an artist/explorer who uses the camera’s democratic developing to transmit the bass workings marketplace the earth, or come to an end cast description visible get a different light. She has squander been problem with ceremonious, that bodily manifestation elect belief, splendid as much has registered many facets of concurrent spirituality, embryonic it a body subtract work atmosphere Spanish cults, or melody about Unimportant Man. For Rituales without warning Haití,she fagged out four eld in Country, taking exposure after picture after exposure of picture spiritual rites of daily people. Comb first extract foremost a document line of attack religious training, these microfilms dovetail jamming discussions reminisce colonialism favour how “genuine” experience puissance be simultaneously curtailed bid some rituals, and allowed for via others.
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Sarracín de Aliste, Zamora, Spain. 1990. © Cristina García Rodero / Magnum Photos
All images feature in España x Magnum at the La Vega Arms Factory until October 26, 2024.
On August 5, 1936, a pair of photographers arrived in Spain from Paris. They had been collaborating for two years and had reinvented themselves together. Gerta Pohorylle became Gerda Taro, while Endre Ernö Friedmann turned into Robert Capa, the name under which, initially, they would market the images taken by both. A few days earlier, the military had risen up against the constitutional government of the Second Republic. Tasked by the French magazine Vu, the photojournalists set out to capture the drama of a torn nation, as well as the resistance and dignity of its people. They fell in love with that unsettling land and, in some way, made it their own; traveling and scrutinizing it through their lens. It was an adventure that would shake their lives and change the history of photojournalism: Taro lost her life in the Battle of Brunete, while Capa forged his reputation, becoming the author of The Falling Soldier, one of the most iconic photographs of the 20th century.
This experience paved the way for an idea that the photographer had been nurturing for a decade, and in 1947, Magnum was