| With its entrance into the contemporary
art circuit – its exhibitions, biennials, museums and educational
institutions, history, aesthetics, market – photography has
undergone an intense and evident transformation. From that image
which only aspired to be a witness of reality, we have now moved
towards constructed representations, distant or critical gazes,
and the reproduction of the ordinary and banal.
Realism and correspondence with the world have ceased to be the
norm. Instead, the images pose a reflection about themselves; capture
the resonances of previous representations; experiment with supports
and devices; hold a dialogue with the multiplicity of photographic
practices, from photo-journalism to advertising, from testimony
to the family illustration. Without neglecting its aesthetic and
technical explorations, contemporary photography also ventures into
the searches of the sister visual arts; it accepts the challenge
of inquiring into the current visual images, the media imaginary;
the social, political and cultural negotiations of advanced capitalism.
At the crossroads of all these interests and problems, photography
is currently much more than a mere image: it is, above all, a motor
of thought. Without overlooking its historical destiny of giving
expression to the universe in which it is born, it projects itself
towards the fields of reflection, cultural and social analysis,
the dismantling of the modes of representation, the collective imaginary
and the epochal identity.
To some extent, the works selected for this edition of the Petrobras
Award – Buenos Aires Photo, respond to this new perspective;
hence their healthy diversity. In each and every one of them one
may perceive a concern and a world, a context and an author’s
gaze, a space open for contemplation, analysis and thought.
by Rodrigo Alonso
Jury: Victoria Verlichak, Alicia
de Arteaga, Elda Harrington, Rodrigo Alonso, Julio Sánchez
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WINNERS
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| 1º
PRIZE
Hugo Aveta. Historias clínicas
Colonia Santa María |
2º
PRIZE
Lila Siegrist.
Home Sweet Home |
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3º
PRIZE
Diego Emilio Lama Cabieses. Pabellón de Caza. |
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| 4º
PRIZE
Marcos Goymil. Ivo |
5º
PRIZE
Andres Wertheim. Homenaje a M. C. Escher Autorretrato
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FINALISTS
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Alejo Schatzky. Verano
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Pablo Tapia. S/T 2005
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Arturo Aguiar. Vanitas
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Celeste Leeuwenburg. Joseph
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| Denise
Giovanelli. Trampolín |
Nuna Mangiante.
Objeto metálico no identificado
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Laura Messing. De la serie Homotipia,
“Los que van y los que vienen”.
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