El daguerrotipo de Toledo

Presentamos aquí una segunda edición corregida y ampliada de esta antología, introducida por la Doctora, crítica de cine y profesora del City College of San Francisco Moira Sullivan, una de las investigadoras de Maya Deren más importantes a nivel mundial. La principal aportación a esta nueva edición –que se abre con un pequeño poema de la cineasta de 1941–, es el diario de rodaje de la película The Private Life of a Cat (1946), dirigida por Alexander Hammid y concebida por Deren; se incluyen asimismo su declaración de principios completa, los programas de mano de las...

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

La Mirada (the gaze) presents nine outside their country almost unknown Latin American artist-photographers. The works of the last 20 years range from straight photography to the staged image. This title describes not only gaze of the camera directed towards a specific subject, but also the artistic attitude and mental approach of the nine artists and their diverse views on photography.