"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 ..."
"Rufino Tamayo, considerado uno de los más grandes e importantes pintores mexicanos del siglo XX, desarrolló una faceta totalmente desconocida como fotógrafo. Una selección de las imágenes que tomó de la ciudad de Nueva York han servido para elaborar este insólito y original fotolibro."
"This is the history of Rivera s ill-fated mural and the minute restoration of the sketches housed in the collections of the Museo Anahuacalli, complemented by a vast number of letters, photos and other documents, many of which are published here for the first time. This book tells of Rivera s trip to New York, his relationship with the Rockefellers, his break with the family and the destruction of the mural. In addition to presenting an ..."
"Esta es la historia del escándalo y desaparición del mural que Diego Rivera alguna vez propuso para el Centro Rockefeller en Nueva York y que ahora está recreado en los muros de Bellas Artes. La minuciosa restauración de los bocetos está publicada junto con una gran cantidad de cartas, fotos y otros documentos inéditos."
"Quando Frida morreu, em 1954, todos os seus objetos ficaram trancados em um dos comodos da mitica Casa Azul, onde ela morou muitos anos com o pintor Diego Rivera. Cinquenta anos mais tarde, esse tesouro foi aberto, mas somente agora as mais de 400 fotos guardadas sao finalmente reunidas numa publicacao. As imagens mostram uma serie de autorretratos de seu pai fotografo, Frida quando menina, seu estudio, o encontro com Rivera, seu circul ..."
"The outcome was the book "Spanish-Colonial architecture in Mexico" published in 1901 showing the "folkloric and picturesque" side Mexico while highlighting the abandonment and ruins of its architectural patrimony."
"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."
"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 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 ..."
"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 ..."
"Mexico's White Mountain was once home to the indigenous pre-Columbian Zapotec civilization. Photographer Pablo Ortíz Monasterio engages this foundational mythology by documenting its physical manifestations in contemporary life, as depicted on decorative murals, key chains, ashtrays and pony glasses."
"Durante el Festival Internacional de Fotografía Valparaíso 2013, los fotógrafos Carlos Rivera Segovia y Pablo Ortiz Monasterio se conocieron en un taller sobre fotolibros. En el evento analizaron y discutieron publicaciones fotográficas por varios días, con la intención de desentrañar las cualidades que poseen algunas y que las convierten en clásicos. El referente constante fue Valparaíso, el mítico libro de Sergio Larraín, con imágenes ..."