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"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.

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...

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.

Original newsreel footage from official news agency of Spain, Noticiario Español, or NO-DO, depicting historic events during the Franco regime.