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Edmundo Desnoes Biography

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Edmundo Desnoes is an individual born in 1930 with an unknown profession. His life experiences and contributions are limited in available information and require further research.

Art Artist Resistance Subversion

Book:Memories of Underdevelopment

Source: Memories of Underdevelopment

“I'm all screwed up because I've looked into things more than is good for my own health; don't know why the hell I read so much. That's why I'm here all paralysed.”

Reading Books Anxiety Mental Health Obsession Indecision Paralysis

Book:Memories of Underdevelopment

Source: Memories of Underdevelopment

“It all turns into a spectacle, when you're not taking part and just watch the game from the outside. That's why I enjoy reading so much.”

Reading Observation Spectacle

Book:Memories of Underdevelopment

Source: Memories of Underdevelopment

“With the present violent historical acceleration - each new generation of knowledge occurs every ten years - the day is close when everything I know will be completely obsolete (for all the good it did me!) and I will still be alive.”

History Obsolescence Future Shock Historical Process

Book:Memories of Underdevelopment

Source: Memories of Underdevelopment

“Es posible que tenga algo que ver con el trópico, aquí todo madura y se descompone con facilidad. Nada persiste.”

Society Cuba Sociedad Desarrollo Edmundo

Author:Edmundo Desnoes

“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.”

World Steps Danger Contemporary Visuals Manipulation Overwhelming Richness

Author:Edmundo Desnoes

“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.”

Men World Reality Form Culture Language Behinds Expression Photography Cameras Invisible Fraud Convincing Fooled

Author:Edmundo Desnoes

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

Wells Photograph Observers

Author:Edmundo Desnoes

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

Men Way Capitalism Ancient Crush Visuals Ritual Construction Egypt Refined Present Day Ancient Egypt

Author:Edmundo Desnoes

“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.”

Moments Our Lives Offers Add Photograph Metaphor Decades Not Alone Static Blink Decisive Moments

Author:Edmundo Desnoes

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

Lying Literature Painting Photography Angle Selected

Author:Edmundo Desnoes

“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.”

Reality Certain Lost Perfection Sensual Bliss Volume Composition Texture Harmonious Equilibrium Ragged Cartier

Author:Edmundo Desnoes

“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.”

World Firsts Kind Mean Faces Black White Possibility Elements Photography Photographer Indian Latin Our World Defining Latin America Demographics Demonstrating Latin American

Author:Edmundo Desnoes

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Born: 1930
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