where can I find the biography of the Puerto Rican photographer Adal Maldonado?

Question

I've been looking everywhere and i can't find it. I need to know more about this photographer. Things like when was he born, what kind of shutter speeds and f-stops does he use, does he use burning and dodgin, does he cut the photographs and how......well please help me out.

Answer 1

Try these websites! Good luck!

www.el-status.com/

www.inliquid.com/features/taller2/

www.boston.com/ae/theater_arts/

www.artnet.com/ag/artistindex.asp?N=1

www.icp.gobierno.pr/apl/apl_noticias.htm (this one should be very good!)

Adal (Adal Maldonado)



----------ARTIST----------: ABOUT THE ARTIST

ARTISTS NAME: Adal (Adal Maldonado)



BIRTH DATE: 11/01/1948

BIRTH PLACE: Utuado, Puerto Rico

GENDER: Male



CITIZENSHIP: United States



NATIONALITY: Puerto Rican, American



LIGHT WORK RELATIONSHIP: Workshop 1976

Lecture 1976

Artist-in-Residence 1986



LIGHT WORK PUBLICATIONS: Contact Sheet 52

Contact Sheet 75/76

Contact Sheet 97



----------IMAGE----------: ABOUT THE IMAGE

TITLE: A Bag of Air from Alex's Room...

DATE: 1976

HEIGHT IN INCHES: 7

WIDTH IN INCHES: 7

MEDIUM: Silver Gelatin Print



CATALOGUE NUMBER: 1994.1114-8B.15



AVAILABLE PRINTS AND PUBLICATIONS: http://www.lightwork.org/catalog/backissues13.html

COLLECTION LOCATION: 1114-8B.15



ESSAY AND KEYWORDS: Photographer Adal (Alberto Maldonado) was an Artist-in-Residence at LW/CD in 1986. A good deal of his time was spent preparing work for an exhibition at the Tweed Gallery at City Hall in New York. The exhibition, titled 'The Avant Garde Mambo Society', features portraits of Latin American musicians by Adal along with photographic murals by Marco Kalisch and a video documentary, 'Musica', by Gustavo A. Paredes.



Spanning three decades of music history, Adal's startling portraits provide insight into the visions of each musical personality. We see the eyes of Mongo, laughing out of his joyful expression; the sensual and provocative body language of Ruben Blades; the authoritative stance of music impresario Ralph Mercado; and Tito Puente's image as 'Drum Major' against a stenciled background of singing birds.



His 'Mango Mambo' (The Avant Garde Mambo Society) is a celebration. It is a tribute to the endurance of a musical community which has maintained traditions in the face of change, and at the same time created a fusion of elements and styles found in a new environment.



Adal lives and works in New York City. 1986

Answer 2

confident Puerto Ricans are US voters a million.confident we've US passports and we are able to return and forth throughout the time of the U. S. with in basic terms an identity 2.we are able to artwork over there purely like if we've been shifting by PR 3.We communicate Spanish at abode, college and artwork, over 50% of Puerto Ricans do not recognize English (stunning however), yet we've an English class at our college that its required and we get greater desirable jobs if all of us recognize English and a few words are blended between English and Spanish in our daily communicate.

Answer 3

Commander Adal of Planeta Maldonado:



As a boy in the countryside of El Spirit Republic I often heard the out of focus accounts of La Guagua Aerea. According to our out of focus jibaro griots Puerto Ricans who’d migrated to the US mainland started finding air plane tickets under their pillows and began to travel frequently to the old country. They traveled in fat propeller airplanes that took off at midnight they nicknamed el ki ki ri ki - the cock-a-doodle-doo because it left at midnight and arrived at sunrise - that had a pair of dice topos hanging from its control panel and a live trio that walked up and down the isles singing plenas, guarachas and boleros. They christened the airplane la guagua aerea and the experience was likened to a magic realist bus ride. I never tire of hearing that story.



The story of the development of El Spirit Republic’s out of focus space program, however, is a far more serious account; no laughing matter. Following the creation of the out of focus state of El Spirit Republic - situated at 10 degrees latitude just west of a place called Eden - Doctor Ocula an eccentric optometrist who during his student days had been a member of Los Bodega Bombers a para-military dissident group that set off explosive cans of Bustelo Coffee to protest against anything the out of focus state stood for began a series of experiments to see what laid beyond the field of restricted sight in this out of focus world and developed an optic apparatus he called eye glasses. This new development allowed the wearer to bring blurred objects into focus. However, once reintroduced to the old world of hard objects that existed before El Spirit Republic was established the thin layer between the out of focus and the clear began to dissolve and conditions that plagued the old world - hunger, distrust, war, plague and famine - began to infiltrate El Spirit Republic.



Information regarding these concealed experiments reached the ears of the Grand Spirit Council and our physicists and scientists realized that an optic experiment like this could bring down El Spirit Republic before its time. Doctor Ocula was apprehended and his experiments in inter-optical perception and travel were terminated. But these events raised concerns that any territory material or imagined could be infiltrated and subverted.



As a precaution, in case of any future acts of sabotage against our out of focus state of reality, the government established the Coconaut Space Program whose objective was to explore the cosmos for alternative out of focus life supporting territories in other solar systems. To date we have discovered and explored an out of focus dimension on Star Luna and established a settlement there named Villa Borroso in honor of San Borroso the Patron Saint of the out of focus.