La imagen como fábrica

This is an anthropological essay that studies social dynamics of Mexicos city from the perspective of its inhabitants. An analysis about the relationship of their everyday life with the history of the city is made from questionnaires and the exhibitions of images to a group of people- taxi drivers, traffic cops, deliverymen of goods, students, housewives, street sellers and middle class motorists.

"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.

La obra y las palabras de 140 creadores de imágenes de la revista The New York Times Magazine. La fotografía contemporánea por excelencia a través de las voces de sus fotógrafos, editores y temáticas. Un testamento al poder perdurable de la fotografía. Incluye más de cien imágenes, ordenadas en cinco secciones: Retratos, Documentales, Fotoilustración, Estilismo y Proyectos. Esta publicación lleva años siendo una pieza clave en el mundo de la fotografía. En un momento decisivo del medio, este volumen reflexiona sobre las fotografías más impactantes publicadas por la revista en...

An incomparable portrait artist and Colombia's most outstanding photographer of the second half of the 20th century, Hernán Díaz is a cultured and versatile professional. Together, the hundred black-and-white photographs collected in this book form a gallery of Colombia's most important social, cultural, and political figures from the 1960s to the present day. Though the subjects are often public figures, Díaz's evident comradery with them brings a rare intimacy to their portraits. A critical study of his work accompanies the reproductions. En la fotografía de escenas y de gentes...