Madrid ayer y hoy

Everyone puts their silver granite. Arabesques drawings -- The indiscreet eye of the cartoonist -- Photochemical precursors -- A small push -- From scientist to merchant -- First lights: Nicephorus Niepce -- The daguerreotype -- Latin American experiments -- Talbotype or calotype -- Wet collodion -- Comic Photography -- The Dry Plate -- Photographic Industries -- Industrial Visionary -- New concepts in the profession -- Not everything was lost with the world wars -- Mexican Light and shadow. First lights -- Finisecular moments -- In search of images -- Finding ways -- Contemporary nuances --...

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.

El cine por regiones es el título del segundo volumen que dedica Juan Felipe Leal al año de 1909 (el primero lo consagró sólo a la Ciudad de México). En él divide el autor el territorio nacional en ocho áreas geográficas, en las que agrupa la información que recogió en diversos archivos y hemerotecas acerca de las actividades cinematográficas que se llevaron a cabo en ese espacio de tiempo. Hay que decir, que Leal seleccionó dichas áreas de una manera relativamente arbitraria, con propósitos meramente operativos. Éstas fueron: el Golfo de México, el Sureste, el Centro, el...

In fall 2012, the hardcover edition of this book was released to critical acclaim and received several awards, including the 2013 American Society of Landscape Architects Honor Award for its innovative collaborative approach and design. Now available in a smaller, more afford - able paperback edition, Petrochemical America features Richard Misrachs haunting photo-graphic record of Louisianas Chemical Corridor, accompanied by landscape architect Kate Orff s Ecological Atlasa series of speculative drawings developed through research and mapping of data from the region. Their joint effort...