Mexican photographer Pedro Meyer was educated in the United States, but returned to Mexico in 1956. He is a self-taught photographer whose works have appeared in more than 200 exhibitions in museums and galleries worldwide and are part of permanent collections in Europe, the United States, and Latin America. Meyer founded two Mexican photography organizations, the Grupo Arte Fotográfico and the Consejo Mexicano de Fotografía, and established the photography Web site ZoneZero, which hosts the work of more than 1,000 photographers. He lectures widely about photography and new technologies.
Worn and torn by many fingers
It stands on the bedroom dresser,
Resting back against its single cardboard buttress,
(There were two)
The gilt clasp that bound it, loose and broken,
The beautiful…
Based on a painting, now lost, by Maurits Leon, this lithograph by Johannes Heinrich Rennefeld (1832–1877) seems to depict a scene from an 1837 novel about Spinoza by German Jewish author Berthold…
The grund . . . You handsome and robust country lads of the wide-open spaces, who need only step outside your doors to be close to limitless meadows, under a marvelous vast canopy of blue; you whose…