Milagros de la Torre:Photographs 1991 – 2011
Milagros de la Torre
RM
& Ediciones Lariviere
Hardcover
224 pages
220 x 300 mm
2012
ISBN 9789879395752
Peruvian photographer Milagros de la Torre (born 1965) has worked for over 15 years on this series, which explores the overlap between photography and the darker side of human nature, particularly in the criminal underworld and in the suggestive use of enigmatic objects. Drawing on photographic compositional techniques such as serialisation, de-contextualisation, classification and defocus, she exposes the power of photographic rhetoric to frame and prejudice our vision. De la Torre is a recipient of the 2011 Guggenheim Fellowship Award in Photography.
About the Artist
Milagros de la Torre is a New York based artist whose work addresses how mechanisms of observation and image language respond to various notions of Violence. Her body of work is built upon her research with institutional and governmental archives. She studied Communications Sciences at the University of Lima and received a B.A. (Hons) in Photographic Arts, University of the Arts London. Her first solo exhibition (1993), curated by Robert Delpire, was presented at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris. In 1995, she was an artist in residence at the Cité des Arts and worked as a curatorial assistant in the Photography Department at the Musée Carnavalet, Paris.
About the Publisher
RM is one of the most prestigious publishers of art books in Latin America, focusing primarily on photography and contemporary art. It also maintains a select catalogue of Latin American literary classics. RM has published more than 190 titles by or about writers and artists of the international stature of Graciela Iturbide, Myako Ishiuchi, Carlos Amorales, Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Martin Parr, Julio Cortázar, Daido Moriyama, Luis Barragán, Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, Masao Yamamoto, Juan Rulfo, Agustín Jiménez, Marcos López, Jeff Wall, Pablo Ortiz Monasterio, Paolo Gasparini, and León Ferrari
Ediciones Larivière has celebrated twenty years in the Argentine and Latin American publishing market. Since it was founded in 1992 by Dudu von Thielmann and Jean-Louis Larivière, it has published books on a wide variety of topics on a continuous basis, as can be seen from its catalog. The company’s publications are noted for their visual, documentary and artistic quality and constant focus on the cultural heritage of Argentina and South America.
