Desconfiar de la mirada

A lo largo de las páginas de este libro, su autor nos muestra, además, su enorme empatía y su proximidad humana con unas vidas al borde del abismo. Un "trotafronteras" de mirada experta que se convierte en un testigo incómodo, pero absolutamente necesario, de lo que se practica en la frontera sur española.

Nadar, whose real name was Felix Tournachon (1820-1910), was a conspicuous, even astonishing presence in nineteenth-century France. Engaging and quick-witted, he invented himself over and over as a bohemian writer, a journalist, a romantic utopian, a caricaturist, a portrait photographer, a balloonist, an entrepreneur, a prophet of aeronautics. The name "Nadar" was on everyone's lips. Today, it is Nadar's photography that is remembered. His sitters, who were often his friends, included the great men and women of his time: Dumas, Rossini, Baudelaire, Sarah Bernhardt, Daumier, Berlioz, George...

The largest city in South America north of Rio, Bogota is an urban environment of more than 7 million inhabitants; like other metropolitan areas, Bogota is many cities at once. Looking through Cristobal von Rothkirk's photographic eye, here is all of Bogota-the sophisticated Hispanic city, the South American captial, the complex of urban cultures tattooed with signs of international pop culture. In this book is both a city being reshaped by our times as well as a timeless city with 500-year-old customs and festivals. Von Rothkirk sees the contrasts that show up at street level but even the...

Por fortuna, la investigación del fenómeno cinematográfico en México ha sido abundante. Se ha abordando su problemática desde diversos ángulos y con diferentes estilos, produciendo un importante cúmulo de conocimientos. Pero la Historia del Cine es una disciplina siempre inacabada: cada trabajo abre nuevas vetas para la discusión y el análisis de la cuestión y proporciona materia prima para otros trabajos. El volumen 1 (1895: El cine antes del cine) de la colección Anales del Cine en México, 1895-1911 que nos hacen llegar ahora Juan Felipe Leal, Carlos Arturo Flores y Eduardo...