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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.

A lo largo de las últimas dos décadas en Argentina numerosos documentales participan activamente en las lecturas que se realizan sobre los acontecimientos, muchas veces traumáticos, del pasado reciente. Este libro reflexiona sobre los modos de evocación que adoptan los filmes que reconstruyen las militancias revolucionarias de los setenta, su represión y las consecuencias que esta genera en la sociedad. Estos documentales de memoria se caracterizan por ciertos rasgos comunes como la apelación a los testimonios y la presentación de sus interpretaciones de los sucesos recordados a...

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.

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.