Good Memory
Having just turned forty, Marcelo Brodsky found himself back in Argentina after having lived in Spain for many years. This new beginning was an opportune time to work on his identity. According to Brodsky, "Photography, with its precise ability to freeze a point in time, was the tool I used for this purpose." With a desire to know what had become of his class mates, Brodsky began to go through photographs of his youth. A 1967 eighth-grade class photo was selected and used as the centerpiece for Buena Memoria.
"I decided to hold a 25th reunion of my classmates from the Colegio Nacional Buenos Aires," said Brodsky "so that we could see each other again. I invited those who I was able to find to my house, and proposed doing a portrait of each of them. I blew up a huge version of the 1967 picture, the first one in which we were all together, to serve as a backdrop for the portraits, and asked each to include an element of his or her current life in their portrait."
–Marcelo Brodsky |
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