Fotografía

The charming town of Los Gatos is nestled at the base of the Santa Cruz Mountains and is sometimes referred to as the Gem City of the Foothills. It has inspired hundreds of postcard images through the years, many reflecting the areas abundance of natural beauty. As the town and surrounding area grew and prospered through agriculture, logging, and commerce, the local architecture and landmarks became popular subjects. Glimpses of everyday lifechurches, schools, houses, and businessesfurther enhanced the pictorial history the postcards represent.

Nos encontramos inmersos en una era en la que imágenes de todo tipo nos rodean y emiten mensajes diversos que no siempre somos capaces de comprender. Ante esta situación se hace necesario retomar el control, desarrollar aptitudes para leer, analizar y crear imágenes. La comunicación visual engloba disciplinas relacionadas con la capacidad comunicativa de las imágenes, cuya relevancia es cada vez mayor frente a la comunicación escrita. Esta obra pretende dar un paso más y ofrecer una reflexión más profunda sobre una de las disciplinas que la conforman: la fotografía cinematográfica, ...

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.

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