Madrid ayer y hoy

Africa is a source of amazing bio-diversity and home to some of the planet's most spectacular landscapes. The sights of this awe-inspiring continent are captured with consummate skill and sensitivity by master lensman Michael Poliza. With extensive experience photographing the animals and terrain of Africa, Poliza's viewpoint is shaped by his concern for the fragile eco-systems he chronicles. These images embody the soul of Africa's flora and fauna with a true artist's eye for color and composition. This book will be enjoyed for years to come. Poliza started as a child actor on German TV,...

Este libro que publica Juan Felipe Leal con la colaboración de Eduardo Barraza trata de la incursión del cinematógrafo en los viejos teatros y en los modernos y suntuosos coliseos que se construyeron en el país a finales del siglo diecinueve. También se ocupa de la vida dramática y lírica en la Ciudad de México en la primera década del siglo veinte en páginas que nos recuerdan la importancia social que tenían las funciones de teatro, ballet, ópera y zarzuela, con sus correspondientes elencos de autores, compositores y escenógrafos; de empresarios; de divas y divos; de intrigas y...

FotoFest 1992, a major festival of international photography, brought Latin American photography into focus for a wide audience. Offering a diverse selection of photographers, countries, artistic movements, and subject matter, the show revealed a photographic tradition rich in history and creativity. Drawing from the more than 1,000 images exhibited by FotoFest, this book documents the work of fifty-two photographers from ten countries. The photographs range from the opening of the Brazilian frontier in the 1880s to a secret archive of documentary images from El Salvador's recent civil war to ...

The project "Realities and Desires" by Susana Casarin began in January of 2007 in some areas of high marginalization in the State of Veracruz and in the districts of Netzahualcyotl and Ecatepec on the outskirts of Mexico City. Her photographs graphically documented the life stories of local transvestites and transgender persons highlighting in her images the stigma, discrimination and marginalization of gender suffered by this vulnerable social group. Includes texts by doctor and surgeon Arnoldo Kraus.