El daguerrotipo de Toledo

This book is published to celebrate the awarding of the 2009 International Prize for Photography Citoler Pilar to Juan del Junco (born 1972). Since 2000, del Junco has explored a kind of comedic staged photography in which (for example) a young woman paints her plants the same blue as her dyed hair, or dogs look on while a couple make love.

Exhibition highlights of the international photographic collection of the Foundation Televisa in Mexico with text by 81 prestigious writers. Each writer was given a copy of a photograph from the collection (from 1840-contemporary digital works) and asked to write an essay. Some of the photographers include: Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Anton Bruehl, Robert Capa, Gisele Fruend, Graciela Itrubide, Alfred Stieglitz, Cindy Sherman, Tina Modotti. Some of the writers include: Dore Ahston, Amitav Ghosh, Alvaro Mutis, Hugh Thomas, Jorge Volpi, Mike Wallace, Elena Poniatowska.

Este libro que publica Juan Felipe Leal con la colaboración de Eduardo Barraza trata de la incursión del cinematógrafo en los viejos teatros y en los modernos y suntuosos coliseos que se construyeron en el país a finales del siglo diecinueve. También se ocupa de la vida dramática y lírica en la Ciudad de México en la primera década del siglo veinte en páginas que nos recuerdan la importancia social que tenían las funciones de teatro, ballet, ópera y zarzuela, con sus correspondientes elencos de autores, compositores y escenógrafos; de empresarios; de divas y divos; de intrigas y...

A SPECTACULAR COLLECTION OF PHOTOGRAPHS THAT RECORD THE ASTOUNDING BEAUTY, SCALE, AND DIVERSITY OF NINETEEN AFRICAN COUNTRIES. THIS IS A RARE TREAT TAKEN FROM A UNIQUE BIRD'S-EYE VIEW IN A HELICOPTER.