Fotografías míticas

<p>Photographs have a strange and powerful way of shaping the way we see the world. The most successful images enter our <strong>collective consciousness, defining eras, making history,</strong> or simply touching something so fundamentally human and universal that they have become resonant icons all over the globe. To explore this unique influence, <em>Photo Icons</em> puts some of the most <strong>important photographic landmarks under the microscope.</strong><br /><br /> From some of the earliest photography, such as Nicéphore Niépce’s 1827 eight-hour-exposure rooftop picture and Louis Daguerre’s famous 1838 street scene, through to Martin Parr, this is as much a history of the medium as a case-by-case analysis of its social, historical, and artistic impact. We take in <strong>experimental Surrealist shots of the 1920s </strong>and the <strong>gritty photorealism of the 1930s</strong>, including Dorothea Lange’s <em>Migrant Mother. </em><br /><br /> We witness the <strong>power-makers </strong>(Che Guevara) and the <strong>heartbreakers</strong> (Marilyn Monroe) as well as the <strong>great gamut of human emotions and experiences </strong>to which photography bears such vivid witness: from the euphoric <em>Kiss in Front of City Hall </em>(1950) by Doisneau to the horror of Nick Ut’s <em>Napalm Against Civilians </em>showing nine-year-old Phan Thi Kim Phúc running naked toward the camera from South Vietnamese napalm.</p>