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An instructional guide to digital photography combines helpful tips with step-by-step instructions as it covers everything from picking the right camera to producing exotic infrared images to the editing of images.

With Torero, Ruven Afanador juxtaposes the incredible beauty of young bullfighters and old-world Latin traditions with a couture-inspired vision of the opulent costumes and the ritualistic elements of the matador culture, and narcissism, an integral aspect of fashion photography. Afanador opens the door to the famously closed society of bullfighters, offering his elegant, private view of the young matadors raised in a centuries-old Latin tradition, capturing their balletic beauty, and their distinctly erotic aura. Through these iconic portraits, Afanador also gorgeously documents the...

"The birds, now immobile were organized in a scanner and converted into disturbing [photographic] images that maintain their vigorous splendor, sumptuous colors; the eternal presence of the beautiful "Duino Elegies" where poet Rainer Maria Rilke sings to the lethal birds of the soul and the beauty of the angels that announce their death are the inspirational reference for the artist"--Colophon. Includes short story "The man who spoke with birds" by Ethel Krauze.

El dúo de fotógrafos Indestructible Factory, celebra sus 7 años de trabajo con la publicación de su primer libro From top to bottom, un recopilatorio fotográfico de 50 modelos masculinos, donde se les puede ver retratados de rostro y trasero, en una muestra de gran gusto estético y delicadeza, acompañados de ilustraciones y fotografías del making of de los artistas.