"The artist and human rights activist Brodsky fled into exile to Barcelona. After his return Brodsky created Buena memoria, a complex and deeply touching study about individual suffering, which is featured in this book."
" In the history of photography in Mexico, portraiture is an important, established tradition, transcending styles, subjects and decades. Mexican Portraits includes more than 350 portraits from more than 80 well-known Mexican photographers, including Romualdo García, Agustín V. Casasola, Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Enrique Metinides and Graciela Iturbide, among numerous others. Including both contemporary and classic works, mostly created in t ..."
"When Frida Kahlo died, her husband Diego Rivera asked the poet Carlos Pellicerto turn the Blue House into a museum that the people of Mexico could visit to admire the work of the artist. Pellicer selected those of Frida's paintings which were in the house, along with drawings, photographs, books, and ceramics, maintaining the spaces just as Frida and Diego had arranged them to live and work in. The rest of the objects, clothing, documen ..."
"Photographers Marcos Lopez, Ricardo Cases, Jorge Chiguano, Edu Leon and others were invited to a workshop to explore Quito, Ecuador--both the real city and imaginary structures. The resulting volume, Flux Quito, compiles their work."
"Agustín Victor Casasola photographed everyone of consequence in Mexico at the time of the revolution, from Francisco (Pancho) Villa, Emiliano Zapata, and the exiled Russian leader Leon Trotsky to artists Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo. For this splendid collection of Casasola's work, the noted American author Pete Hamill has written a rich essay on the photographer and the Mexico he pictured so well. Essay by Pete Hamill. Hardcover, 9.5 x ..."
"Don Manuel Álvarez Bravo es sin duda uno de los grandes artistas del siglo XX, sus fotografías revelan una mirada fina y profunda. Fue "además de fotógrafo" melómano, coleccionista y maestro, de trato amable y carácter fuerte, heredero de la tradición del altiplano mexicano. Lo conocí en 1975 en la Photographers Gallery de Londres, yo era estudiante y él una estrella internacional. Me gustó su manera de sonreír. Desde entonces, miro su ..."
"CUANDO FRIDA KAHLO MUERE DIEGO RIVERA, MARIDO, EX MARIDO Y VIUDO DE FRIDA, LE PIDE AL POETA CARLOS PELLICER QUE CONVIERTA LA CASA AZUL EN UN MUSEO PARA QUE EL PUEBLO DE MÉXICO PUEDA VISITARLA Y ADMIRAR LA OBRA DE LA ARTISTA. PELLICER SELECCIONÓ LOS CUADROS DE FRIDA QUE ESTABAN EN LA CASA, ASÍ COMO ALGUNOS DIBUJOS, FOTOS, LIBROS Y CERÁMICAS CONSERVANDO LOS ESPACIOS TAL CUAL LOS HABÍA ADAPTADO EL MATRIMONIO PARA VIVIR Y TRABAJAR. EL RESTO ..."
"Andra Malraux once called Mexican photographer Hactor Garc'a the creator of "one of the cruelest images of our time." That picture was Garc'a's Niio en el Vientre de Concreto, a disorienting black-and-white picture of a disheveled, dirty child folded up into an insignificant crawl space cut in a plane of concrete. Garc'a grew up in Mexico City during a time when the country was struggling to define itself as a modern nation. His work as ..."
"Con motivo de la celebración de los 150 años de la fotografía en México, el FCE y el Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes convocaron a las galerías de la ciudad de México a organizar exposiciones fotográficas de diferente índole. Este libro reúne el material más representativo y revela los distintos rostros del mexicano."
"Dramático reportaje gráfico de la Casa de Ejercicios Espirituales de Atotonilco, Guanajuato, que recoge escenas cotidianas de los creyentes que acuden a ella para expiar sus pecados y purgar sus penas."
Historia natural de las cosas(1st Edition) 50 fotógrafos (Coleccion Rio de luz) (Spanish Edition) von Álvaro Mutis, PabloOrtizMonasterio Paperback, 87 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 1985 von Fondo De Cultura Económica ISBN-13: 978-968-16-2138-4, ISBN: 968-16-2138-7
"Interesante muestra iconográfica que reúne parte del trabajo de una pléyade de profesionales de la lente. Las generaciones son muy distintas entre sí; algunos nacieron en el siglo pasado y otros apenas en la década de los sesenta."
"Fotógrafo valenciano genial e incisivo. Su obra es vasta y variada; lo presentado aquí es una antología de su producción en los últimos 40 años, caracterizada por el fotomontaje a partir de los elementos más grotescos del american way of life."
"Photographers Guillermo Kahlo and Henry Greenwood Peabody are best known for the remarkable images of Mexican colonial architecture that they made during the early years of the twentieth century. Kahlo, the father of the woman who would become Mexico's best known painter, emigrated from Germany in 1891 and established himself as a successful studio photographer before being commissioned by the government of Porfirio Diaz to compile a de ..."
"Mexico City presents a post-apocalyptic paradigm, rivaled only, perhaps, by Los Angeles -- it is a metropolis ravaged by immense poverty, crime, and the ill-effects of over-population. As a street photographer working in the tradition of committed documentary image-making, Ortiz Monasterio reveals Mexico City's fragmentation."
"Este libro reúne una selección de fotografías de la época pre y postrevolucionaria, tomadas del Archivo Casasola. Contiene: "Porfirio Díaz", "Madero", "La Decena Trágica", "Huerta", "Caudillos", "La bola", "Jefes y héroes"."