Friday, April 30, 2010

What's An Acrostic Poem For Claire

"THE HEART OF TUAREG", Part 2.

Yassmine
remember his eyes looked at me as I passed her, walking and grasping the bridle of my exhausted camel. He noticed especially in my eyes, I have always had profound and pervasive, and perhaps draw your attention to my demeanor. During my youth, and until recently, wore a dashing figure and Apollonian. My good size and strength to my person used to attract the interest of the women of every race and condition. However, it was a shame that because of the traditions inherent in my ethnicity, I would public to always face muffled and lost women enjoy the attractiveness of my masculine traits, especially when my mouth was really gracious, both full lips and well designed, for the teeth that hid: snowy and correctly aligned. Surmounted the grace of my face, a prominent cheekbones and a harmonious oval, finished it in a chin party that gave me a more masculine air even if fit.

As I say, the pity is that such charms remain hidden from the eyes of women, even though my eye, eternally underlined the blackness of kohl, and my demeanor Donoso, already the attracted. And that's me greatly pleased, because in spite of religious precepts, my heart was embarrassed in the presence of a beautiful woman, only his silhouette sense under the gauzy veils, present their naked forms just touched by the softness of the lightweight fabric and my blood boil in the veins with the frenzy of a chestnut about to mount a mare.

I've always been an ardent male, though, that heaven gave me the chance to meet that later became my wife, I never saw any female wish she were not. I was so overwhelmed by the sight of her naked body, often sensual and voluptuous, my whole universe revolved around him. Yassmine was my houri on Earth, did not need to die and ascend to heaven to enjoy it. They had it before me, the most sublime of beauties, with that smile creamy, butter and honey, I melted, I became his slave every time gentle caressing her silky skin and kissed her swollen breasts, crowned big dark areolas that festooned the pointed nipples.

since the first meeting, from which we agreed under the gate in the wall of the Ksar, and our eyes met, I knew that this young woman, almost a girl, would be for me. And since then I fought against everything and everyone to get it, taking always on my mind yearning to make it mine as he could marry her because I wanted for nothing, loving as he loved her, dishonor.

From the beginning of our relationship, I began to imagine it free of veils and robes and fantasized with unbridled lust, to find me lying between her thighs warm and moist, bathed in sweat and possessing her again and again, passionately, the rhythm of my breathing or gasping with delight sipping the delicious nectar that flowed from his heart thanks to our exorbitant lust. My mind and my body came to such a degree of excitement when he was in his presence, that I could hardly restrain, and, unable to do so, went to various tricks to escape my libidinous condition and minimize the excessive lubricity that the mere sight caused me, embarrassed by it to present such evidence of lasciviousness and licentiousness.

Some of those tricks was to use innocent childish memories, such as mentally counting camels or remember my father a thousand and one incidents occurred during my childhood. When all else failed, resorted to religion as a counterpoint to express my desire and carnality of going over the words he had heard in the last sermon of the Imam of Time, as a nomad and I came here and there to had the nearest mosque.

CONTINUED ...

Painting: "A Moorish bath" or "Turkish woman bathing" ("A Moorish Bath" or "Turkish woman bathing"), 1870, Jean-Leon Gérôme .
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Wednesday, April 14, 2010

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Zapata, Part III.

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Format. Miguel Angel Berumen

in his book "Mexico: Photography and Revolution," gives an ambiguous but important fact, most of the photographs during the revolution were made in 5x7 format. In some ways it was obvious before, and had been important to get a statistic, would be 50% +1 majority.

outside Mexico Studies studying the phenomenon of the postcard, converge at the point that the highlight of the postcard, early twentieth century, most images used in these formats from 5x7.

majority then use 5x7 format we can understand how a global response to market needs, on postcards, and images for print, magazines, pamphlets, newspapers, books, etc.

The American Review of Review, July 1914. Photo agency accredited by the Brown Brothers, New York.

preserved images of the photograph of F. Miller in Mexico, Mayra Mendoza Avilés points are reproduction, 5x7 format negative, two gelatin dry plate (glass) and a nitrocellulose film. The images for the photography of F. Miller in the United States, are unsigned and are Repro 5x7, the copy in the Library of Congress is a glass plate. The copy of Getty Images, Hulton Archive, is the same as F. Miller, with the creation date of the first of January 1915.

To make an photocopying early twentieth century we have two paths, play or play a negative impression. Professional reproduction of negatives is a bit complex, where it remains exactly the proportion, no image distortion but you can see the brightness altered. The other way is to shoot the picture, often with distortion of the image, with ripples and reflections, in the best when you place the photo in a completely flat warp, we find tacks or tape, and generally a reduction in the size .

Obviously to play a negative, we need the negative, whereas with a print, reprographics reprographics see and Repro the reprographic reproduction of

... Funny how an image that reaches so wide spread in Mexico and the United States, primarily through duplication and not original. Generally in

see an interest Repro maximum amplitude image, which the original is larger or the reproduction of an equivalent size.

rediscovered photography by Daniel Ezcorza, published on April 16, 1913 in the newspaper El Impartial, contains more visual information, this means, the format is larger than 5x7. If the cropping is 5x7, what size is the original?

Front Page of The Fair, April 16, 1913, published in the journal Alquimia No. 25, courtesy of Miguel Angel Morales.

The photograph used to create the halftone, and then publishing it is lost, then it must be based on the analysis of the remaining data.

Regardless of the actual size of a photographic image, while not mutilate or distort, maintains its share. A 5x7 photo, is the proportion (1 x 1.4), postcard (1 x 1.6), and an 8x10 photo, (1 x 1.25), etc., The image of the Fair is almost square (1 x 1). Alchemy magazine number 25, plays the front page of the Fair, however cut format, maim part of the image that concerns us. Repro

For the 5x7 preserved, we conclude: there is no significant reduction or amplification, by the sharpness of resolution, we can give certainty about the size of the frame at 5x7.

To date attributed to its creation, 1911, there are two systems of measurement in the dimensions of the photographic plates, "Inglés" and "Continental" ( see table).

Where there is no trade measure square format than 5x7, it can be assumed that the image of Fair also was cut. Knowing the extent

5x7 for reframing can deduce the apparent proportional Fair print in 8x9.

In 1912 the American magazine The Independent, published an article entitled: "Mexican Bandits at Close View", written by Edwin Emerson, the editor's introduction reads: "This article, buying a sandwich you eat to us direct from Mexico ...."

included 5 illustrations, the magazine has the form 6 ¾ x9 ¾, four of the images are photographs 8x10, one of which was conducted within the hotel Moctezuma, exactly in the same space where you take a photograph of Zapata, and presumably the same day. Las fotografías del Independent no están firmadas ni se da crédito, posiblemente llegaron junto con el artículo a la revista, el reportero aparece en la fotografía.

Edwin Emerson es el personaje vestido de claro y con sombrero de Tap, dos lugares a la derecha de Abraham Martínez.

Edwin Emerson, no es un simple reportero, se trata del coronel del ejército norteamericano al servicio de Leonard Wood, Jefe del Estado Mayor estadounidense, quien usaría el disfraz de reportero mientras realizaba sus actividades de espionaje, estamos hablando de un agente secreto.

Emerson una vez reanudadas las hostilidades en Morelos, se le asigna la misión Victoriano Huerta monitor, for it covers the business news on Huerta's headquarters in Cuernavaca, the food offered by General Huerta Almazan General on 10 August 1911, Emerson is present. The first contribution on Huerta newspaper published in the journal "The Outlook", November 11, 1911, entitled "Victoriano Huerta." However, the "reporter" was in Morelos earlier.

Edwin Emerson.

The evidence suggests that the original image of Zapata, at the foot of the staircase, northern corridor, the first courtyard of the Hotel Moctezuma, is a format 8x10 upright. Which brings us back to the data: "The format used was 5x7", second term appears ZIP format, and here we regret not having statistics to know what percentage applies to the 8x10 format. No doubt a minority, the question lies in who was using 8x10 format cameras.

know that Manuel Ramos, Aurelio Uribe Escobar, used them as a tool for field work, of which there are good examples, other photographers such as Hugo Brehme and Wilhelm Kahlo also used the 8x10 cameras, but it needs to deepen when and how did . How the rich American photographers who crossed the border on foot on the railroad, or arrived by boat, some use the format ...?

In the words of John Reed can find an explanation: "The U.S. expeditionary force will not have to fight a coward. Ignorant peons will face, not trained in military maneuvers, poorly fed, poorly equipped and armed with dozens of types of rifles dating from dozens of different speeds. But as good as the best natural shooters in the world. "

This same expression is valid when applied to the photographers, the majority of Mexican photographers came to the profession through practice, with teams hardly be renewed , Photographers often legacies of previous generations, the handful of photojournalists did not have advanced equipment, for American photographers was the opposite, since the early days of the revolution in 1910, we see them with modern equipment, the 8x10 format, was not a possibility for them. We exclude a few photographers who worked with widescreen formats, which is another story.

To continue searching photographers we must focus on Mexicans or foreigners resident in Mexico before the start of the revolution, working with 8x10 cameras ...

visit to Morelos and Guerrero by Francisco I. Madero in mid June 1911, until his return to Morelos, early August 1911, there is a trace 8x10 format photo.



Tuesday, April 13, 2010

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"THE HEART OF TUAREG" Part 1.

watch the palm of my hand, crossed by a planisphere lines: life, death, heart, mind ... a universal atlas of wrinkles and folds engurruñados, ribbed, puckered ... mountains, cirques and valleys ... a varied terrain that extends weakly along the length and width of one quarter. Volume

a handful of sand and agree that slip through my fingers. Balancing his weight as it falls, attracted by the forces of the Earth. The golden sand is leaden as his ancestors: the mica and feldspar, and favorite daughter of translucent quartz. Pass the idle hours watching slides, over and over again, slipping furtively at the joints of my right hand.

sometimes absorbed in this trivial task, forgetting that on my turban indigo blue sky and sun is hotter. Forget even the crests of the dunes, which, like the backs of dragons wounded, writhing convulsively which snakes curling, and I fail to recall the zigzag trail left behind the cold snake, the dunes move up, backing down ...

dune Where are you my dear country, my beloved? What am I not even in my dreams, do not you find neither in the verses I read and reread every evening, before the fiery sun Give way to the silvery stars.

So I, absorbed, absorbed in thought, almost in a trance, when I hear the sweet voice of my wife Yassmine, whose name was assigned by referring to white flower of intense and heady perfume. Not surprisingly, my Yassmine was so sweeping as the most fragrant flowers and so captivating as the velvet petals.

She calls me now to prepare him tea. Every day, at different times, but with greater calm and quiet in the moments before the sunset, I poured a green tea flavored with mint, boiling, with a bubbly foam which is reminiscent of ocean waves that one day saw in Essaouira. My beloved Yassmine

was not a nomad like me. I met a Moroccan ksar at the foot of the Atlas Mountains, a red fortress of tamped earth and lime, which contained fresh thereunder high adobe walls on high towers. When I first saw it, my heart a turnaround, I knew at once that love had come to my door. It was a fragile girl and beautiful, shiny, saffron, eyes and lips which stars poppy. A light white veil covered her head, without much care, allowing a glimpse of the birth of their brunos hair, decorated them with a tiara of silver and ebony beads hanging from his forehead and runs off the flow of a river already when rushing stream, which uncontrolled cascade of unfathomable depths.

tumble So my safety and my breath when I had it before me, I could not contain more than admiring the beauty of a delicate face, a fine without any comparison. Throughout my then eighteen, had seen girls with their faces uncovered and some found them beautiful, but nothing like Yassmine, none had the essence of a celestial being conceived as a human.

was a modern woman ahead of her time, is my Yassmine. Even had some studies and serving as a teacher for little girls and little boys of the population, those who had not yet entered, by age or vocation, in a madrasa, or Koranic school. And his character was also on par with her beauty: was sensitive, kind and selfless at the same time cheerful and innocent as a flower of which bore the name. Was nearing the age of sixteen, and yet his inner strength was that of a mature woman, while her own naiveté was an innocent creature.

CONTINUED ...

Painting: "Unfolding the holy flag" (Showing the flag holy), 1876, Jean - Leon Gérôme.
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Sunday, April 11, 2010

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Mexico through the causes. Quest photographer

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Mexico through the causes, collections, Carlos Monsivais.

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weekend of 10 and 11 April 2010, I had the opportunity to visit the show twice, as it required to confirm some data, and use the zero restriction on the use of photographic equipment.

Last year in the same space was presented the show "You look so much like me", it appeared some pictures attributed to HJ Gutierrez, and I pointed them by commenting in his book visitasla the importance of putting the author's full name, "Juan Gutierrez Escobar Heliodorus, and not just for short. Apparently did not read it and again appears simply HJ Gutiérrez.

The second-floor room, we get first a section dedicated to Francis I. Madero, with some documents and photos in small format. Three postcard-sized portraits of Mr. Madero is classified as anonymous.

I.
This photograph has been reproduced for years, but here is an original print. I've long identified as a creation of one of the studies of HJ Gutierrez, based on typography, and the characteristic curvature of the line of writing, calligraphy recognizable attribute of Aurelio Escobar Castellanos. Fortunately there is another wall, marked by the study " marst " same kind of typography, calligraphy with a horizontal orientation, for ease of reference of the types of calligraphy see: "HJ Gutierrez to AV Casasola. typography. "

While Mr. Madero maintains a calm attitude but static, his eyes slightly in both cases to evade the camera, feeling indications own photographer ... ...

The two shots seem to correspond to the same session, light, shadows, folds of clothing, etc., correspond, where the operator rotates around your model while it is stationary, or both images were created simultaneously, two cameras, two photographers ...

II.
In this case is simpler, because we have the same image signed "HJ Gutiérrez, same font of the above. The sample is a print Estanquillo narrower.



III.
In the last image can say it shares the stylistic properties of (I) and the background used on all (I, II), we will be watchful to find another outlet, or a signed version.

Conclusion: there is little research to mount the sample, the same shortcomings found in other parts, which we'll talk later.


Thursday, April 1, 2010

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Zapata, Part II. Quest photographer

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In general truth ...

The iconographic representation of Emiliano Zapata, with attributes General, is well known for a large segment of the population, reproduced countless times.

But actually that's what it represents?

The idea apparently indicates that, General Zapata.

5x7 Photo unknown.

Zapatista movement during the historical period known as the Mexican Revolution, never had a regular military structure, it was guerrilla groups of various kinds, who congregated or dispersed according to their needs and capabilities. There was no rank structure, and clustering as well constituted an army. The degrees were awarded in an arbitrary manner, more in terms of local leadership, and not an organizational structure.

Emiliano Zapata was not the only general, it was: Otilio Montaño, Gildardo Magaña, Crispin Galeana, de la O, S. Fernández, Felipe Neri, Manuel Palafox, Sabino Burgos, Eusebio Jauregui, Francisco V. Pacheco, Everardo González, Zeferino Heliodorus and Castillo, among others. Many times these generals commanded a hundred men only, so that their degree was more rhetorical than real representation of a military force, but also came to form units with a few thousand men.

Emiliano Zapata presents himself as "General in Chief."

military logos are for a symbolic convention, with a correct understanding within the military world, and part of the personal pride of who the carrier. While we recognize the symbol "$", representative of "weights" (monetary unit, money), the military insignia has the same function, to publicize a specific message, the basic difference is that "$" is a symbol common to all strata of society, while the military badges can only be read by some.

tell us it's about Emiliano Zapata, dressed as a general, Emiliano recognize it, his face is familiar, but as we know it is usually beyond that named him as well ...

From large military groups involved in the race, federal troops Villistas Constitutionalist and Zapatista, only the latter did not even, not a badge system itself.

To read the image from a convention we preset, "banda in general."

first point, the colors set for the rank of General in Mexico between 1900 and 1914, are two: green for Brigadier General, Major General blue, red for officers.

Emiliano Zapata's band, shows two colors in five strips ...

Going back further in time from Mexico's independence in 1821, using the same convention, a single color for the band or girdle.

seemingly simplest thing would be to look within the guidelines and military regulations, when and how they apply the general distinctive. But take the way of interpreting images.

Among the many photographs of soldiers in dress uniforms, media campaign gala and 1910, the centennial anniversary of Independence, we realized two things, the general use only belt, the presidential staff to use band honor, white, and sash by rank.

In general photographs of Diaz in his youth, just use belt ...

In representations of the war of 1836 (Texas), we see the military Mexican band, General Santa Ana dress white uniform dark blue jacket and blue sash, turquoise, Brigadier General Urrea, white pants, dark blue coat with red overalls and green sash. We could go with pictorial representations of Agustín de Iturbide, Guadalupe Victoria, Vicente Guerrero, etc., Which bear blue or green belt as appropriate.

So when using the band as a sign of general in Mexico?

Sunday August 6, 1911, was the ceremony of the swearing of allegiance by the 32 / or Battalion, with a magnificent representation, using the Paseo de la Reforma from the statue of Charles IV to the column of Independence among present interim president Francisco León de la Barra, Mr. Dr. Francisco Vázquez Gómez, Francisco I. Madero, the cream of the characters in the political and military hierarchy. Including three major generals than their fair share as a distinctive blue color, nine brigadier generals, green, 16 Brigadier, red. The justices, judges, advocates and senior Army assimilated with civil suits, wore green and crimson bands.



The maximum number of general statutes division was five, according to public law, the supreme head of the army belonged President of the republic, and this made the rank of General of the Army, with Porfirio Díaz Mori major general, a place that had not been replaced. Of the three divisional present, the entire body, only Bernardo Reyes wears the blue sash of major general.


Curt Teich Postcard Curt Teich Postcard Archives, Lake County Discovery Museum.

In 1913 "Curt Teich Company of Chicago, the largest postcard printer in North America, brings to market the card serial number R33847, the photo image is registered in the United States by Fred Miller. The postcard was published in color, which meant the lighting of some of its parts, the original photo is black and white for the band will choose two colors: blue and green ...

Clearly, Emiliano Zapata's band does not carry general, but how to get the mistake and what is the real representation.

The Enlightenment of "Curt Teich," correctly identifies the color to be the general premise, but is faced with the problem of the five strips in two different colors.

Posada
When the recorder is working on image based on the photograph, has the same problem, your solution, cut 5 strips three. This leads to another interpretation, Posada is incomprehensible to the band with 5 ribbons, does not decode it, and looking for a model according to their intellectual baggage, or there is intent ...

The band with three strips have been interpreted as a green white and red, including the painter Diego Rivera recorded based on Posada, reconstructs the band to 5 strips, the central green, the next two ends to the exterior white and red . Both options in a more or less clear or implied, Posada, and Rivera induced propose a banda "Presidential" or patriotic colors.

In the case of Posada, we have to refer to his political inclination, the leaflets where see your text clearly contain anti-zapatista taxed. And it could be a subliminal message, where the tri band bridges the gap between Zapatistas and wood, equal in their negative, as destroyers of the "regime." The tri band, whether in ribbons, bows, scalpel, etc., Is the flagship Madero. Yes

photography was done in 1911, it might be logical tricolor logo as a symbol of the union of Emiliano Zapata and Francisco I. Madero. Even Francisco I. Madero and his wife agree to be groomsmen D. Manuel Emiliano Zapata ... Asúnsolo alleged owner of the band was wood, although some have wanted general view of the Zapatistas. Adam Newman in his book "Zapata back" calls it "decidedly anti-Zapatista individual," and José Manuel López Victoria, in "History of the Revolution in Guerrero," calls it "a personal friend of the Madero family." Dolores Manuel

Asúnsolo, was a mining entrepreneur, up in arms with 30 pawns in Chichihualco, and his short military career would develop in the state of Guerrero, the military and political intervention in Morelos, would cause conflict between Madero and Zapata , especially the powers that is taken to appoint interim governor in Morelos.

This could lead much to talk among historians, and yet no other way.

can source the band has been interpreted as general, despite its 5 ribbons, because their colors were blue and white. It would not be the orthodox form, but allow your understanding.

Asúnsolo Where did the band?

Asúnsolo The first ancestor was in territory of New Spain: Juan Manuel de Asúnsolo and Mayor, who arrived shortly before the Independence of Mexico, for his military talents drew him Agustín de Iturbide to his entourage, participating in the campaign of the Bajio. A few years after the return of the infamous Emperor Iturbide exile 1824, Juan Manuel Asúnsolo precisely identifies who after his arrival in Tamaulipas, days later, the former Emperor would be shot. Juan Manuel Asúnsolo

had obtained the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, the independence movement led by Agustín de Iturbide, while seeking autonomy from Spain was the Bourbon court, and claimed that a prince of the house occupied the throne in Mexico. The livery was the band Bourbon Blue and white bicolor, which can be blue-white-blue or blue-white-blue-white-blue, the central blue stripe wider than the other ...

is virtually impossible based on an black and white image, determine if the gray scale corresponds to blue, red or green, so we can only assume, be more likely, blue and white.

The Zapatista movement takes as an emblem of the Virgin of Guadalupe , whose colors are blue and white ... Asúnsolo The reasons for using the band may be different from those of Emiliano Zapata. The real world is not black and white, the colors have their major part.

Ignacio Allende, a painting by Ramon Perez, 1865, oil on canvas, National Palace, Mexico. Symbolic conception of this painting has similarities with that of the Zapatistas suggestive ... general Green Belt, Guadalupe standard and band Bourbon.

Asúnsolo Zapata relationship is elemental to the time of image creation, for the simple reason of the possession of the band, but also must consider the emotional political relationship between the two characters, the break between Asúnsolo and Zapata, Zapata, Madero precedes the break, the cooling of their relationship almost immediately, leaving us as a possible date for the creation of historic photography, tour of Francisco I. Madero to the states of Morelos and Guerrero in 1911.


iconographic Zapata's influence, applied to other characters, in this case Pancho Villa. Leftmost photograph signed by DW Hoffman, probably the original central retouched the same image recorded by Bain News Service, far right post anonymously, which tweaked the holsters to give Pancho Villa in a band under the model used by Zapata and focused on the label: "general."

Think what would happen in the mind of the proud military meeting at the Paseo de la Reforma in the morning of August 6, 1911, where through the symbolism of the uniforms he recognized the primacy of General Bernardo Reyes, single ported the divisional blue band, it had before them the pictures and signed by Wray Miller ...

of Wray From surely laugh.
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From Miller ...

On 8 August, two days after initiating a scorched earth campaign against the Zapatistas.