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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

Discusses how the people of Mexico honor their loved ones in death through the celebration of All Souls' Day.

As I recall discovering this book of photographs, I remember the sense of beauty and mystery that remains undiminished almost seventy years after its original publication. On a formal plane, one can easily understand how Man Ray manipulated the optics of the camera, juxtaposing near and far, object against object, space against object, and tactile against transparent. It is also apparent how he deliberately manipulated the process of photographic printmaking, using unusual tones of black, white, and gray to transform content into spaces, forms and surfaces. However, it is not simply how Man...

Estas memorias de Félix Nadar, reconocida figura del siglo XIX, ofrecen un imprescindible testimonio de los primeros años de la fotografía, que ha interesado a numerosos pensadores de la imagen, de Walter Benjamin a Rosalind Krauss. En las catorce viñetas, verdaderas fotografías en prosa que conforman este libro, Nadar narra, entre otras, sus experimentaciones con el servicio postal aéreo durante el Sitio de París, el terror de Balzac por ser fotografiado, el impacto masivo de la imagen en un célebre caso de homicidio, su descenso a las catacumbas y cloacas de París —momento en el...