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The Candid Frame: Conversations on Photography

The Candid Frame #41 - Dulce Pinzon

The Candid Frame: Conversations on Photography

Ibarionex R. Perello

Arts, Visual Arts

4.8768 Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2008

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Dulce Pinzon is a young Mexican artist living in the US, whose "The Real Stories of the Superheroes" is a series of portraits of latino immigrants in the guises of famous Mexican and American superheroes. The striking portraits have drawn much attention for their unusual take on the issue of the role of immigrants in today's society with a bite of satire.Her work has been published and exhibited in Mexico, the US, Australia, Argentina and Europe. Dulce is a 2006 fellow in Photography from the New York Foundation for the Arts.You can view her work by visiting her website.Dulce Pinzon recommends the work of Loretta Lux.For streaming audio click here or subscribe to the podcast for free viaBook Recommendation: Tina Modotti & Edward Weston: The Mexico Yearsby Sarah Lowe

Transcript

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0:00.0

It's October 8th, 2007, and this is the Candid Frame.

0:28.8

Today's guest is Dulce Pinzone, a Mexican-born photographer now living in the United States in New York.

0:35.9

Her work is an example of how photography can be used to create more than a beautiful

0:41.9

photograph, but to actually make commentary about a lot of the things that exist in our society.

0:48.6

Case in point, immigration.

0:51.0

And it's an issue that it polarizes many of of us in terms of our opinions in terms of what

0:57.5

or shouldn't what should or shouldn't be done in terms of immigration.

1:00.8

But it's interesting to see what a person can do with photographs to sort of add to the

1:06.1

dialogue of that in a very interesting and dynamic way.

1:10.1

More than just portraits of immigrants.

1:13.3

It's portraits of immigrants with a little twist.

1:17.2

The twist being that many of these immigrants that she's photographed in the streets of New York

1:21.3

are donned in the costumes of famous superheroes.

1:26.6

And I think we take a look at the image and you hear the dialogue that I have with Dulce,

1:30.7

that it really is a very intriguing way of being able to use the camera, of using photography,

1:37.3

to sort of bring something different to the dialogue,

1:40.6

to bring a slightly different perspective that we might not have considered

1:43.8

when we

1:45.6

were discussing or thinking about the topic.

1:48.4

And it's one of the reasons I was very excited about the opportunity to interview Dulce for

1:53.5

the show.

1:54.7

So thank you for your continued support for spreading the word.

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