What a great day for the rambling man as Hank Williams would say, in PhotoEspaña (Madrid). First I started at Helen Levitt's huge exhibition at ICO's Museum. New York, the people from NY, the streets, the vagabonds, the kids, the nannies... the graffiti, the cars, the dirt. Her Leica and East Harlem. Levitt's exhibition is one of those that PhotoEspaña has into its program so we do not forget the corner stones of photography. She is began taking photos in the mid-30s as, so the curator says, "a singular meeting point between the Surrealist poetics of everyday mysteries in the big city on th eone hand and the social documentary realism of lower and working-class American culture on the other".
... and then there was Juergen Teller. And his ass hole, his balls, his little kid, Vivien Westwood, Kate Moss, Eggleston, Marc Jacobs, YSL and Charlotte Rampling and... his scar. Very funny exhibition in which is hard to find the real deep nice job that Teller has made. Some of his best photos are not here but, al least we can take a look at some of them in the books showed inside the crystal tables.And, to finish a little chat with great Spanish photographer Alberto García-Alix and some excellent project projections like Juan Manuel Castro Prieto's or the one by the above mentioned García-Alix.
