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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...

RASTRO es un libro de fotografía en blanco y negro porque no podría ser de otra manera, porque es atemporal como el propio Rastro de Madrid, ese mosaico ecléctico con forma de mercadillo y cuatrocientos años de tradición. Es un relato mudo que cuenta la historia que no sale en los titulares pero que ayuda a construir la Historia con mayúsculas. Es el reflejo de un estado de ánimo y la historia de una mirada.

Located halfway between Los Angeles and Yuma, Arizona, Indio came into being as a railroad town in 1876 when the Southern Pacific Railroad completed this last link in its southern transcontinental route. Settling this arid land took ingenuity and courage, and Indio’s early residents had both. In the 1930s, Indio became a mining town when 92 miles of tunnel were dug through its eastern mountains for the Los Angeles Aqueduct, the largest construction project in the United States during the Depression. World War II brought Gen. George Patton’s Desert Tank Corps to train nearby and crowd into ...

Para conmemorar el centenario del nacimiento de David Alfaro Siqueiros (1896-1974) se publica esta iconograf a, estructurada de modo que nos gu e por los evento de la vida de este controvertido pintor. Este material no s lo nos muestra fotograf as del artista pl stico, sino del personaje hist rico: activista sindical, educador, orador y militante pol tico. As , las im genes nos muestran el itinerario de este artista excepcional.