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Lucha Libre The Family Portraits

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Author : Lourdes Grobet
language : en
Publisher: Editorial Rm
Release Date : 2009

Lucha Libre The Family Portraits written by Lourdes Grobet and has been published by Editorial Rm this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Art categories.

Lourdes Grobet has documented the spectacle of Mexican professional wrestling, known as lucha libre (free fighting), for more than 25 years. The only woman to have worked in such proximity to the sport, Grobet has photographed the masked luchadores in many contexts--and always in their signature disguises, which practitioners have worn since 1942, when a wrestler named El Santo stepped into a Mexico City ring wearing a silver mask, literally changing the face of the game forever. The mask, always a symbolically rich object in Mexican culture, serves both as a retreat (into anonymity) and as an attack, as a weapon with which to disconcert and terrorize the opponent. Its visual appeal, especially when set in scenarios outside the ring, was quickly apparent to Grobet, who describes El Santo as "one of the teachers that most influenced me early on." In Lucha Libre: The Family Portraits, Grobet shows the wrestlers with their mothers, wives and girlfriends, sitting for what would almost be a generic family portrait, but for the fantastic costumes of the luchadores themselves. By this simple recontextualizing gesture, we are brought to the threshold of their identities--and held there. The ungainly, monstrous and splendidly defiant stance they convey with this final preservation of anonymity is of course what gives Grobet's pictures their edge. One of Mexico's leading contemporary photographers, Lourdes Grobet was a student of artists Mathias Goeritz, Gilberto Aceves Navarro and Katy Horna, among others. For the past 20 years, she has surveyed Mexican popular culture, from female wrestling, northern emigration and neo-Mayan architecture to Cuban immigration. Her influence on younger generations of Mexican artists, including Gabriel Orozco and Rubén Ortiz Torres, has been considerable.

Lucha Libre Lucha Libre Spanish Edition

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Author : Rafael Tonatiuh
language : en
Publisher: Rm
Release Date : 2009-07

Lucha Libre Lucha Libre Spanish Edition written by Rafael Tonatiuh and has been published by Rm this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-07 with Photography categories.

Desde muy pequeña, Lourdes Grobet se interesó por el espectáculo de la lucha libre mexicana. Es la única mujer que ha trabajado sobre el tema - durante más de 25 años - y con sus lentes ha ido captando la magia de este apasionado deporte, del que se habla mucho y poco se conoce, pues se trata de un mundo aparte, especial, admirado pero incomprendido. Estos guerreros necesitan su disfraz, pues su aspecto no solo es un bello adorno característico del contexto propio de lucha libre, sino también un arma para desconcertar, deslumbrar, asustar y güamearse al contrincante. Guerreros alterados por el sublime placer de asumirse, estoicamente, anónimos, cuya vida pública podrá ser una leyenda conocida, pero cuya vida privada debe ser un secreto, pues su epopéyica fantasía se confronta al diseño ambiental normal cotidiano con su particular misterio. En este fascinante libro, la asidua de las arenas se adentra en la vida privada de esos ídolos, en sus hogares, en sus sitios de reunión y en los festejos de los históricos gladiadores del ring. Rafael Tonatiuh aporta su especial visión de este fenómeno social único en el mundo. Cada luchado rnos lleva al borde de su personal misterio. From a very young age, Lourdes Grobet was interested in the Mexican wrestling show. She is the only woman who has worked on the subject - for more than 25 years - and with her lenses she has been capturing the magic of this passionate sport, which is talked about a lot and little is known, since it is a world apart, specially admired but misunderstood. These warriors need their costume, because their appearance is not only a beautiful adornment characteristic of the wrestling context itself, but also a weapon to confuse, dazzle, scare and fool the opponent. Warriors altered by the sublime pleasure of assuming, anonymity in a stoic way. Their public life may be legendary, but their private life must be a secret, since their epic fantasy confronts the normal everyday environmental design with its particular mystery. In this fascinating book, the assiduous of the arenas delves into the private lives of these idols, in their homes, in their meeting places and in the celebrations of the historic gladiators of the ring. Rafael Tonatiuh brings his special vision of this unique social phenomenon in the world. Each fought takes us to the edge of its personal mystery.

Lucha Libre

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Author :
language : en
Publisher: Distributed Art Publishers (DAP)
Release Date : 2005

Lucha Libre written by and has been published by Distributed Art Publishers (DAP) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Art categories.

Take one part Mexi-Monster cinema, one part Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, throw in a little Zoro, the WWF and the knit-costume-wearing performance art collective Forcefield, and you come up with the raw, vivid, and psychologically unhinged world of "Lucha Libre" the sports-entertainment phenomenon that first swept Mexico and now the world. Photographer Lourdes Grobet's penentrating study of Mexican professional wrestling culture features more than 500 photographs of "luchadores" like Blue Demon, Santo, The Witch, Adorable Rub', El Solitario and Hurricane Ramirez, as well as pictures of their families, friends and fans--onstage, backstage and even at home. "Lucha Libre" also includes photographs of stickers, flyers, postcards, stills from "Mexi-lucha-cinema," interviews with the wrestlers, essays and much, much more! In this comprehensive 20-year study, Grobet has put together "the" definitive look at Mexico's masked superstars.

Lucha Libre

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005

Lucha Libre written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Documentary photography categories.

Women Photographers And Mexican Modernity

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Author : Julia R. Brown
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2024-02-27

Women Photographers And Mexican Modernity written by Julia R. Brown and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-02-27 with Art categories.

The photographers discussed in this book probe the most contentious aspects of social organization in Mexico, questioning what it means to belong, to be Mexican, to experience modernity, and to create art as a culturally, politically, or racially marginalized person. By choosing human subjects, spaces, and aesthetics excluded from the Lettered City, each of the photographers discussed in this volume produces a corpus of art that contests dominant narratives of social and cultural modernization in Mexico. Taken together, their work represents diverging and diverse notions of what is meant by Mexican modernity. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, history of photography, women’s studies, and Mexican studies.

Maximilian The Mystery Of The Guardian Angel Max S Lucha Libre Adventures 1

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Author :
language : en
Publisher: Cinco Puntos Press
Release Date : 2011-10-18

Maximilian The Mystery Of The Guardian Angel Max S Lucha Libre Adventures 1 written by and has been published by Cinco Puntos Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-18 with Juvenile Fiction categories.

Margarito acts like any other eleven-year-old aficionado of lucha libre. He worships all the players. But in the summer just before sixth grade, he tumbles over the railing at a match in San Antonio and makes a connection to the world of Mexican wrestling that will ultimately connect him—maybe by blood!—to the greatest hero of all time: the Guardian Angel. A 2012 Pura Belpré Author Honor Award winner! Xavier Garza was born in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas. An enthusiastic author, artist, teacher, and storyteller, his work is a lively documentation of the dreams, superstitions, and heroes in the bigger-than-life world of south Texas.

Slam

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Author : Katinka Herbert
language : en
Publisher: To Hell with Publishing
Release Date : 2010-07

Slam written by Katinka Herbert and has been published by To Hell with Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-07 with Portrait photography categories.

An extraordinary and mesmerising glimpse into the lives and emotions of 'luchadores', the masked stars of Mexican wrestling. Each of them is as fiercely protective of their hidden identity as they are of their God-like status. But, as in all portrait photography, the true communication happens through the eyes. The fact that the rest of their faces are hidden only adds to the fascination of Katinka Herbert's stunning pictures.

Little Chanclas

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Author :
language : en
Publisher: Cinco Puntos Press
Release Date : 2015-08-10

Little Chanclas written by and has been published by Cinco Puntos Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-10 with Juvenile Fiction categories.

A bilingual tale about Little Lilly Lujan who loves her chanclas (flip-flops) going slippety-slappety and flippity-flop. In fact, Lilly refuses any footwear except her favorite pair of flip-flops. "Why does Lilly love her chanclas so much?" her family cries. Lilly doesn't listen. That's why her family nicknames her "Little Chanclas." At baptisms, barbecues, quinceñeras, and picnics, you can hear Little Chanclas going slippety-slap and flippity-flop. Then one day Lilly dances a little too much at a fiesta, her chanclas come apart, a pit bull chews up the remains, and there is no more flip for her flop! Little Chanclas is inconsolable. Crisis ensues as she rejects shoe after shoe. But then a miracle happens. Lilly puts on a pair of soccer shoes. She's a natural. She goes clickety-click. She scores a goal. She's a star! José Lozano is a rising star in the thriving Latino art scene in Los Angeles, California. Born in Los Angeles, his family moved to Juárez, Chihuahua, México, when he was a baby. Growing up on the border, he found many of the cultural touchstones that continue to influence his work today—bad Mexican cinema, lucha libre, fotonovelas, ghost stories, and comic books. Lozano prefers to work in a series, focusing on themes like Mexican wrestlers, paper dolls, and lotería. In fact, the Los Angeles Metro System commissioned his loteria card portraits of various light rail riders for the La Brea/Expo Station. Lozano lives in Fullerton, California, and teaches elementary school in Anaheim.

Lucha Libre

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Author : Santiago Melazzini
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006-02

Lucha Libre written by Santiago Melazzini and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-02 with Artists' books categories.

Santiago Melazzini's short moving pictures--flip books--of literally black-and-white and figuratively colorful Mexican life are as low-tech as it gets: watch the masked luchadores bounce off the wrestling-ring ropes and then fall to the mat, watch the boxer punch, the Mariachi band play, or the tequila have its way, and then watch it all again backwards. An elemental pleasure and an ideal gift.

Espectacular De Lucha Libre

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Author : Lourdes Grobet
language : es
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005

Espectacular De Lucha Libre written by Lourdes Grobet and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Lucha libre categories.

For years, Lourdes Grobet (b. Mexico) has devoted her photographic work to the theme of "lucha libre". She has depicts the cohesive ambiance of one of great aspects of popular culture in Mexico (and now internationally recognized). Her photographs portray the festive life of men in masks, children with costumes, female wrestlers and their highly inspired choreography. She has created a series that joins the scattered elements of what goes on in the ring, with women rewriting historic femininity or tenderly nurturing their children. This is the largest gathering of her work on the subject. Curated by Alfonso Morales Carrillo and Includes texts by Carlos Monsiváis.

Lucha Libre The Family Portraits

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