Les chroniques de Esta

T 2 The Summer of Irreverence

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‘‘Each of us has a unique conception of freedom. And it is not easy to be confronted with the other's”. After Edward Weston’s first departure, the time of doubt had arisen for Tina: “I put way too much art into my life to put life into my art”. When Edward came back in 1925, sales were low,...‘‘ Lire la suite

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Fragments of Femininity

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‘‘“Heaven on earth can be found between a woman’s breasts, on the back of a horse or between the pages of a book”. Fragments of feminity wonderfully depicts portraits of 7 women… No, let’s rewind this. Actually, it is about wonderful ordinary women and their relationships to their own...‘‘ Lire la suite

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T 1 The Summer of Irreverence

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‘‘“We were living an enchanted parenthesis, a kind of endless summer, between two bloody revolutions”. Tina Modotti, “The Photographer whose life was as epic as her pictures”, has recently written María Isabel Carrasco Cara Chards in Culturacolectiva.com. Beautiful and advocating free love...‘‘ Lire la suite

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Elle s'appelait Sarah

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‘‘1942, Opération « Vent Printanier », le début de la politique industrielle d’extermination des Juifs parallèlement menée par les nazis dans plusieurs pays européens. Le Gouvernement de Vichy acquiesce à la demande allemande, et négocie ce qui sera par la suite connu comme la Rafle du Vél...‘‘ Lire la suite

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T 1 Wild West

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‘‘Calamity Jane, the rowdy woman of the West. Famous for wearing men’s attire, an unafraid ability of whiskey-swilling, sharp-shooting, scouting for the Army and her friendship with Wild Bill Hickok. At least, that’s what her own written biography wanted people to remember the myth she had...‘‘ Lire la suite

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T 1 Kabuki

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‘‘Kabuki, or a highly unusual and visual duality poetry in the world of crime and Japanese tradition. Kabuki is commonly known to be the epic form of traditional Japanese theatre. “The Kabuki plays are almost entirely about ghosts, ‘wronged or enraged women bent on exacting vengeance from...‘‘ Lire la suite

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T 2 Metropolis

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‘‘Dans le monde uchronique de Metropolis, l’inspecteur Gabriel Faune et le commissaire Lohmann approfondissent leur enquête sur les femmes de la nécropole et sur le composant explosif utilisé dans l’attentat de la Réconciliation, du carburant de classe aéronautique et spatiale. Lohmann...‘‘ Lire la suite

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T 6 Hedge Fund

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‘‘Short selling, short squeezes, subprime mortgage crisis, Ponzi pyramid schemes, credit default swaps, land, natural resources or commodities in African countries, virtual gold in offshore servers, financial meddling of foreign countries for political gain … So far, the Hedge Fund series...‘‘ Lire la suite

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T 2 Shelley

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‘‘“Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay To mould me Man, did I solicit thee From darkness to promote me”? (John Milton, Paradise Lost, 1667), quotes Mary Shelley in her most famous work, written at the age of 18. Frankenstein is seen as an embodiment of the early 19th century romantic...‘‘ Lire la suite

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T 1 Varsovie, Varsovie

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‘‘Dans Poètes de l’apocalypse, anthologie de poésie en polonais, hébreux et yiddish (1939-1945), les auteurs expliquent ceci : « Au plus fort de la catastrophe (c’est le sens du mot hébraïque “Shoah“), la résistance à la destruction s’est exprimée par les armes et par l’esprit. Le premier...‘‘ Lire la suite

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Miss Davis : La vie et les combats de Angela Davis

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‘‘Alors que des milliers de personnes manifestent dans les rues pour dénoncer la mort de George Floyd, ou encore celle d’Adama Traoré, dans un contexte actuel de « Black Lives Matter », Miss Davis est une piqure de rappel essentielle des luttes états-uniennes des années 1960 pour les...‘‘ Lire la suite

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Giant

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‘‘STOP RIGHT HERE: ABSOLUTE GEM! New York city, early 1930s, the New York of the Great Depression, the assent of Franklin Roosevelt to power and Charlie Chaplin’s City Lights. But also the unstoppable rise of the skyscraper: sometimes, development in a city is so quick and transformative...‘‘ Lire la suite