La imagen como fábrica

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

A raíz de un encargo de la revistaFortune, James Agee y Walker Evans convivie- ron durante los meses de julio y agosto de 1936 con tres familias de aparceros del sur de Estados Unidos para realizar un reportaje periodístico sobre las condi- ciones de vida de los arrendatarios de algodón. Ese estudio resultó un verdadero documento sociológico, pero que, tanto por su descripción austera como por sus fotografías, fue rechazado por la revista. Así, James Agee decidió convertir el re- sultado de esta perturbadora experiencia en uno de los libros que acabó siendo de los más originales y...

These modern and unconventional photographs portray an Italy that is very different from the one most people are accustomed to seeing on postcards. In this book, Italy and its heritage of nature, history, culture and humanity are presented from a unique vantage point — the sky — with pictures taken by two of today's most respected specialized photographers.

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.