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La fotografía —“pintar con luz”— abre tus ojos al mundo de manera que el mundo por fin revela los instantes irrepetibles del vivir. Tus ojos que creían ver, por fin se abren. Y al abrirse al mundo, tú renaces enriquecido.
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“A camera is a tool for learning how to see without a camera.”
D. Lange
“Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.”
A. Adams
“Humankind lingers unregenerately in Plato’s cave, still reveling, its age-old habit, in mere images of the truth. But being educated by photographs is not like being educated by older, more artisanal images. For one thing, there are a great many more images around, claiming our attention. The inventory started in 1839 and since then just about everything has been photographed, or so it seems. This very insatiability of the photographing eye changes the terms of confinement in the cave, our world. In teaching us a new visual code, photographs alter and enlarge our notions of what is worth looking at and what we have a right to observe. They are a grammar and, even more importantly, an ethics of seeing. Finally, the most grandiose result of the photographic enterprise is to give us the sense that we can hold the whole world in our heads — as an anthology of images.”
S. Sontag
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1) Self-published book: “Toronto Street Art”; accepted into Library and Archives Canada, 2016.
If interested, please contact: amelo14@gmail.com
AVAILABLE AS KINDLE EBOOK: here.
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2) PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTFOLIO, HERE:
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3) TORONTO QUARTETS PROJECT, 2005-2019 PROJECT, HERE:
“TORONTO STREET ART AND LIFE;
A VISUAL RECOVERY IN QUARTETS”
Street Art has always been at home in Toronto. It is part of the city’s heartbeat. It makes Toronto unique. It gives its multiculturalism an unforgettable rhythm. Not only does it beautify the city; it also stands for the city’s love of liberty, community and diversity.
These quartets provide you with an initial visual experience of street art’s permanently changing landscape in Toronto. No words, just images. A visual pleasure carefully put together. Many of these beautiful graffities exist now only in the images themselves as they have been painted over or erased. Many are gone. I wish to share the permanent excitement of encountering them in the most hidden corners of our streets, back alleys and laneways. The would remain hidden for most, if it were not for this project.
This project, and still others to come, aim at retaining their spiritual significance as well as the spirit of the many generous artists that produce them for all of us to see. The project is a memory for all of us; a memory of our city, a memory of our humanity. It stands as a reminder of Toronto’s love of freedom.
The previously published book, “Toronto Street Art”, has already been accepted as part of Canada Archives and Library. “Toronto Street Art” is now part of OUR shared heritage.
With your purchase, you will allow me to continue developing this project for a better future together.
TORONTO QUARTETS PROJECT AR ARTS MARKET TORONTO
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Rarefactions: by Andrés Melo Cousineau 
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