Microgeografías de Madrid

SEGUNDA EDICIÓN Un viaje extraordinario, con imágenes inéditas, por la memoria histórica de los barceloneces. 'La Barcelona desaparecida' pretende acompañar al lector en un itinerario por la memoria histórica de la ciudad condal: un viaje extraordinario que revela las personas detrás de las piedras de un tiempo y de un mosaico humano que la evolución urbanística, social y tecnológica han transformado. Los autores, grandes expertos en rincones y personajes barceloneses, han creado una obra gráfica y documental única para redescubrir la Barcelona del siglo XIX hasta los años...

Eunice Adorno has gained access to Mennonite communities and here documents their lives as the women play with children, braid her and work around the home.

In our modern digital age, the polaroid is already becoming a relic of the past. However, the fleeting moment and the uniqueness of it, lend the polaroid a quality beyond its mere merit as a "good" or "bad" photograph. Like a painting, a polaroid becomes an irreplaceable treasure and object of desire, as only one person may own the original. Perfectly lit and composed, these polaroids are Bitesnich's images in miniature, the painterly sketches for later works of art. Though as with most artists, the sketches ultimately become artworks in themselves. AUTHOR Andreas H. Bitesnich started his...

Chino Valley was once part of the immense Rancho Santa Ana del Chino grant conferred in 1841 to Don Antonio Lugo, the former alcalde of Los Angeles. Forty years later, a portion of the rancho was sold to Richard Gird, an American entrepreneur and prospector from Tombstone, Arizona. With characteristic Yankee ingenuity, Gird increased his holdings to nearly 50,000 acres in a short period of time, planned and developed the present-day city of Chino, and transformed the valley into an agricultural empire based on sugar beet production. Chino later emerged as the center for the California dairy...