Etiqueta: Jesus Marchamalo

«Hay una foto suya con Marilyn Monroe tomada en Nueva York en febrero de 1959. Marilyn esplendorosa, inmensamente rubia, con un elegante, carnal, vestido negro escotado como un escaparate y una estola de piel sobre los hombros».

Bringing a new perspective to the photographic genre of typologies first established by the Bechers, Spanish photographer Santiago Torralba (born 1977) solicits recurrent geometric patterns from all kinds of architectures, in deserted or dilapidated Spanish landscapes. Against throbbing blue skies, Torralba elicits triangles, semicircles, rectangles and other small signs of order from these chaotic landscapes.