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El cine y la pornografía, Juan Pablos Editor y Voyeur, México, 2011, (Col. Anales del cine en México, 1895-1911. Vol. 7. 1901: Tercera parte), recrea los inicios del cine licencioso y las campañas de censura que los gobiernos, en especial el mexicano, instauraron para limitar las escenas subidas de tono. Bajo los cánones actuales, las imágenes eróticas que nuestros abuelos disfrutaban resultarían de una candorosa ingenuidad. Tuvo la gentileza Juan Felipe Leal de enviarme la tercera edición de su obra. Aunque es la tercera, ésta incluye información fresca respecto al fenómeno...

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

Tells the participation of women behind the camera since the creation of the National School of Arts and Crafts for Girls in 1910, an idea of president Benito Juárez, which included photography classes to 2010. The richness of the volume lies not only in the text but the very large photographic portfolio constitutes the bulk of the book, with the reproduction of photographs taken by women over 100 years ago.

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.