In 2022, the Nike Cortez is ubiquitous. To date, Nike has produced more than 700 versions of the shoe, collaborating with the likes of Bella Hadid, Kendrick Lamar, and the Netflix show Stranger Things ...
As every Mexican schoolchild knows, theirs is a nation forged nearly 500 years ago by the conquests of a Spanish adventurer named Hernando Cortez who subdued the once-proud Aztec Empire with just a ...
Gary Ganas Garay "Cortez" (2005), acrylic on cardboard, 5 x 10 x 3 3/4 inches (all images courtesy LaPau Gallery, all photos by Monica Orozco) With the 1968 Olympics in Mexico, Nike wanted to present ...