El bosque erotizado

El cine del año del Centenario en los Estados es el título del segundo volumen de esta colección que dedica Juan Felipe Leal a 1910 (el primero lo consagró exclusivamente a la Ciudad de México). Este fue un año de una diversa actividad cinematográfica en la provincia mexicana en el que se distinguieron los Estados de Hidalgo, México, Puebla, Zacatecas y Chihuahua. Además, fue entonces cuando se generalizó el film d’art y cuando se impusieron las películas de gran duración, algunas de ellas danesas e italianas, también, cuando arrolló el famoso “Cine-Phono”. Fue en la...

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.

Laszlo Moholy-Nagy's 60 Fotos published in 1930 as the first book in the planned Fototek series on 'New Photography', 60 Fotos is a complex and multi-layered dialogue using some of Moholy-Nagy's finest examples of 'straight' photographs, negative prints, photograms, and photomontage. Books on Books no. 12 reproduces every page spread from this classic treatise on photography along with a contemporary essay from the noted photo-historian David Evans

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...