AN IMAGE BANK FOR EVERYDAY REVOLUTIONARY LIFE, Feb. 3-April 3
An Image Bank for Everyday Revolutionary Life is a multi-phase project that begins as an online photographic archive, making available to the public over ten thousand 20th century images for the first time. The source for this material is the collection of Mexican muralist David Alfaro Siqueiros, who compiled the photographs over the course of his own extraordinary life. This archive can now be viewed at http://www.e-flux.com/siqueiros
As Siqueiros wrote, "Nothing can give the [artist] of today the essential feeling of the modern era's dynamic and subversive elements more than the photographic document."
The archive -- unique in structure, content and intention -- was meant for the use of fellow artists as a means of inspiration and a source of found imagery. The contents of the archive, images from the 1930s to the early 1970s, offer cultural and social portraits of different eras and nations.
Full report with photos:
AN IMAGE BANK FOR EVERYDAY REVOLUTIONARY LIFE by Latinos Unidos
