Making Apertures and Borderscapes

This bilingual documentary short film depicts the development of the exhibition Enrique Bostelmann: Apertures and Borderscapes with newly recorded interviews with Bostelmann’s family members and artistic collaborators. Along with the exhibition and bilingual publication, the documentary presents new scholarship on the Mexican photographer Enrique Bostelmann and his legacy of artistic experimentation.
Enrique Bostelmann (1939-2003) is distinctive for his striking and experimental photography. Over his forty-year career, Bostelmann fused modernist formal elegance, social documentary, conceptualism, and humor with experimental vision. His work is critically acclaimed across Latin America and internationally, initially for America: un viaje a través de la injusticia (1970), one of the first photobooks and a groundbreaking document in protest photography at a time of political upheaval.
Despite his powerful body of work, Bostelmann remains largely unknown in the United States. The Berman Museum of Art has brought his work to the Greater Philadelphia Area to celebrate and boost public awareness of his contributions to the field of photography.
All facets of the Enrique Bostelmann: Apertures and Borderscapes project have been supported by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, www.pewcenterarts.org/