N.P. Eryshev (b. 1936) Young Change. 1975. Oil On Canvas

El IV Reich?

“I sing of Spain and I feel it to the core; but before this I am a man of the world and brother of all”.

In his youth frequenting Els Quatre Gats, Lluís Bagaria was a self taught Spanish illustrator born in Barcelona in 1882. In the 1910-20’s he was considered the most important Spanish political caricaturists. Lluis was also friend to Federico García Lorca, whom he interviewed for the newspaper El Sol shortly before his assassination. Born in Barcelona, it was later in Madrid where he achieved great popularity and fame. His caricatures against fascism during the Spanish Civil War provoked his exile to Paris and into Cuba. At age 57, In 1940, after recently arriving in Havana Lluis died in exile, an anti fascist to the end.

Elliott Erwitt con su perro y la famosa foto del beso a través del espejo retrovisor...

Saxofón soprano Yanagisawa Elimona, un buen instrumento... (y no me pagan por decir esto, jajaja).

Uncredited Photographer Headquarters of the German Communist Party (KPD), Featuring the Logo of the KPD's Anti-fascist Paramilitary Group, Antifaschistische Aktion, Berlin 1932

Por desgracia, siempre hacen lo mismo. No pueden permitir que otros pueblos prosperen.

The man crying is George Gillette, tribal chairman of the Mandan, Arikara, and Hidatsa tribes of North Dakota in 1948. He was forced under the threat of death of all his people to sign over the tribes’ homeland on the fertile floodplain of the Missouri River in order to build the Garrison Dam.

The final settlement legislation denied tribes’ right to use the reservoir shoreline for grazing, hunting, fishing or other purposes, including irrigation development and royalty rights on all subsurface minerals within the reservoir area.

After the dam was constructed, the three tribes were scattered, their communities and extended families flung to different shores of the 200-mile-long Lake Sakakawea.

This is what your freedom and democracy is built on.

Isadora Duncan bailando en la playa. Descalza, por supuesto, para no mojarse las zapatillas...

El enigma de la ascensión al Everest de los británicos en 1924 sigue siendo un enigma. Allí perdieron la vida George Mallory (en la foto) y Andrew Irvine. Son los riesgos de la alta montaña. Y más aún en aquellas épocas. En cambio, se han convertido en una verdadera leyenda...