Aperture 153: Rio de Luz (Aperture Magazine)
by: Aperture Foundation Inc. Staff

Softcover. NY, Aperture Foundation, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 80 pages. A large, beautifully designed photography publication with many full page photographs in black and white and color. Glossy wraps. The Mexican book series Rio de Luz was a courageous and energetic presentation of Latin American photography. To honor the accomplishments of the series and the artists, an issue of Aperture is devoted to the Rio de Luz collection.Separate chapters address the outstanding themes concerning the editors of the Rio de Luz series-revolution, the American way of life and Cuba, the 1950s, and "poetry of the onlooker." Artists include Lazaro Blanco, Raul Corrales, Hector Garcia, Graciela Iturbide, Nacho Lopez, Pedro Meyer, Miguel Rio Branco, and Mariana Yampolsky. Authors include Carlos Monsivais, Alvaro Mutis, Victor Flores Olea, Pablo Ortiz Monasterio, Roberto Tejada, Raquel Tibol, and Veronica Volkow.