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En las memorias de su infancia José Revueltas recordó alguna vez que "[...] de chico siempre me desvivía porque me compraran proyectores con lámpara de alcohol, iba al Volador a comprar cintas viejas, por metro [...]". Recordaba también las proyecciones públicas, en su infancia en Durango: "Era gratis, ponían una sábana en la plaza y proyectaban películas, a mi me parecía algo mágico, verdaderamente extraordinario [...]". Entre aquel transcurrir de la infancia a la adolescencia y la juventud, viendo el cine mudo italiano, o el cine de Chaplin, José Revueltas se convirtió en un...

An intriguing collection of unposed and engaging color portraits of people from all backgrounds and corners of the globe by an award-winning photographer includes the famous "Afghan Girl" photograph and equally memorable images ranging from a bejewelled Indian bride to a Paraguayan cowboy--255 photos in all.

Nadar, whose real name was Felix Tournachon (1820-1910), was a conspicuous, even astonishing presence in nineteenth-century France. Engaging and quick-witted, he invented himself over and over as a bohemian writer, a journalist, a romantic utopian, a caricaturist, a portrait photographer, a balloonist, an entrepreneur, a prophet of aeronautics. The name "Nadar" was on everyone's lips. Today, it is Nadar's photography that is remembered. His sitters, who were often his friends, included the great men and women of his time: Dumas, Rossini, Baudelaire, Sarah Bernhardt, Daumier, Berlioz, George...

Life and professional career of photographer Moya considered one of the giants of the development of photojournalism in Mexico, particularly during the 70 year authoritarian regime of the political party PRI. Moya combined a sense of social and political journalism with a high artistic value in his photographs, obtaining a balance practiced only by Tina Modotti 50 years before. The book presents 31 photographs shot between 1955 and 1967 and includes images of the death of Francisco Goitia (Impacto, 1960), Diego Rivera and David Alfaro Siqueiros (1957), Manifestation of teachers with cartel of ...