Foto/Gráfica. A New History of the Latin-American Photobook

From January 20 through April 8, 2012, the Le Bal center in the city of Paris presents a century of history of Latin-American photography in the exhibition entitled Foto/Gráfica. A New History of the Latin-American Photobook. The show consists of 40 photobooks created between 1921 and 2012. The idea behind the exhibition was proposed in 2007, during the Latin-American Forum on Photography in São Paulo, in response to the lack of cartography of the photographic books published in the continent during the Twentieth Century. Foto/Gráfica. A New History of the Latin-American Photobook is divided into six thematic centers: History and Propaganda, Urban Photography, Photographic Essays, Artists Photobooks, Literature and Photography, and Contemporary Photobooks. Horacio Fernández, the main promoter of the exhibition, invited photographers Marcelo Brodsky, Martin Parr and Lata Cannabrava, as well as publishers Lesley A. Martin and Ramon Reverlé, to be part of the advisory committee. The exhibition is jointly produced by Le Bal, the Instituto Moreire Salles in Brazil, Ivory Press in Madrid, Aperture Foundation in New York, and the Museo del Libro y de la Lengua in Buenos Aires. The exhibition will travel to the US, Spain, and Latin-America.