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Edmundo Desnoes Biography

Edmundo Desnoes (Havana, Cuba, 1930), is a Cuban writer, author of the novel Memorias del subdesarrollo (Memories of Underdevelopment), a complex story depicting the alienation of a Cuban bourgeois struggling to adapt to the process of the Revolution. He originally called the work Inconsolable Memories in the first English edition. The book was adapted in 1968 into a seminal Latin American film, Memories of Underdevelopment, by the director Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, who decided on the name Memories Of Underdevelopment, the name by which it is today known in the English-speaking world.

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The Latin American photographer has the possibility, and the means, for naming the things of our world, for demonstrating that there is another kind of beauty, that the faces of the First World are not the only ones. These Indian, black, plundered white and mestizo faces are the first element defining the demographic content of our photography.

Defining, Indian, Latin, Mean, Ones, Photography

Images, the visual power of present-day capitalism, like the ritual constructions of ancient Egypt, are refined ways of inhibiting and crushing man.

Crush, Egypt, Images, Men, Power

. . . photography can lie as convincingly as literature or painting. The angle, the selected content, the assumed context.

Assumed, Convincingly, Literature, Lying, Photography

Photography has fooled the world. There's no more convincing fraud. Its images are nothing but the expression of the invisible man working behind the camera. They are not reality, they form part of the language of culture.

Invisible, Language, Men, Photography, Reality, Working

Photographs offer more than decisive moments. They are not alone, they add and subtract and change with time. They are metaphors for our lives. . . Even a static photograph can change in the blink of a day or decade.

Add, Day, Decisive, Metaphor, Moments, Time

The richness of our contemporary visual world must be seen as a danger. It is an overwhelming and oppressive world. A world that manifests itself fundamentally through the image is only a few steps from totalitarian manipulation.

Manipulation, Overwhelming, Richness, Seen, Steps, World

Weston's sensual texture or Cartier-Bresson's implacable composition are apt to close over themselves, attaining the perfection of a certain sensual and harmonious bliss. We see textures, volumes, equilibrium - and reality, open and ragged, is lost and transcended.

Bliss, Harmonious, Implacable, Perfection, Reality, Sensual

Photographs are detonators. They explode in us. We are the gaze as well as the gazed-at. The observer and the observed.

Explode, Gaze, Observer, Observers, Photograph, Wells

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