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Mexican artist Diego Rivera (1886-1957) was commissioned to decorate one of the walls of the second floor of the Palace of Fine Arts in Mexico City and worked on it between January and November of 1934. He created "Man Controller Of The Universe" or "The Man in Control of the Universe" - "El hombre controlador del universo".
This fresco is 4.85 meters x 11.45 meters in size and has an openly political content. The worker appears as the central axis from which the image is divided into two. The left section is configured as a critique of the capitalist world, characterized by class struggle and corrupted by repression and war. Darwin's presence - a reference to the development of science and technology - contrasts with the advance of the soldiers of the First World War. Greco-Roman sculpture represents religion and Western thought, while its counterpart, at the opposite extreme, the fall of fascism. The right section presents an idealized vision of the socialist world: workers demons...

Photography, to me, involves seeing the light and capturing the moment: the colorful illumination in the sky just before sunrise; bright sunlight dancing on the bubbling current, the glint in the eye of a mockingbird, soft reflected light caressing the face of a child, the dynamic reflection of the setting sun on the beach. As a photographer, I use my camera to share with others my vision of the world. I have been making photographs for as long as I can remember. From images of nature and my surroundings growing up in northern Germany, to photo-journalism in Hamburg, Germany. I always gravitated toward a career in photography. Immigrating to the United States in the 1970s, I built a reputation in portrait photography, and ran a...