Max aguilera hellweg biography
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Surgical photography
1Anthropomorphic robots have become increasingly important in contemporary society as shown by the recent adoption of “Civil law rules on robotics” by the European Parliament on February 16, calling for a definition of smart robots based on: the acquisition of autonomy through sensors and/or by exchanging data with its environment (inter-connectivity) and the trading and analysing of those data; self-learning from experience and by interaction (optional criterion); at least a minor physical support, the adaptation of its behaviour and actions to the environment; absence of life in the biological sense.
2This conflation of living beings and inert artefacts is not new, especially in art. For centuries, artistic productions have staged objects as if they were living beings; today an increasing number of artists are abandoning living models in favour of their simulacra. As American photographer Max Aguilera-Hellweg shifted his work focus from surgery to robotics,
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The original work began as a magazine assignment for the LA Times Sunday in the late s.
Max Aguilera-Hellweg was assigned to photograph a street corner in East LA in Boyle Heights where Mariachis congregate andwait for a passing car to stop and get hired for a party, wedding, or quinceañera. Before digital, it was expected that photographers shoot 35mm or mm film, and always in color. However, when Aguilera-Hellweg received this assignment, he had recently begun working in 4x5 and had wanted to experiment with Type 55 Polaroid—a film that gives you a Black and White print and a negative. After arriving in Boyle Heights, and seing the scene of Mariachis standing about, all dressed up with nowhere to go, he made the decision that the work had to be shot in black and white Polaroid 4x5 instant film.
This project eventually snowballed into a more expansive project to cover the US/Mexican Border the entir
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Max Aguilera-Hellweg
Max Aguilera-Hellweg, né ett [1], est un photographe et réalisateur américain. Il a aussi suivi des études dem médecine et a été diplômé ett de l'Université Tulane.
Il a été photoreporter smycke 20 ans, et a travaillé ett particulier pour Fortune, Time, Esquire, Rolling Stone, GEO, Stern, Discover, Scientific American, Newsweek, the Washington brev Magazine, the Los Angeles Times Magazine, the New York Times Magazine, Texas Monthly, the New Yorker et le National Geographic[2],[3].
Certaines dem ses photos sont exposées au Museum of Modern Art dem New York. Il a remporté le World Press Photo pour son ouvrage Le cœur sacré, Un atlas chirurgical du corps humain, et a été primé lors des Rencontres d'Arles enstaka [4].
Publications
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- &#;: Le cœur sacré, Un atlas chirurgical ni corps humain[5].