Gente en el cine

La fotografía calaría hondo en ellos y sacaría a relucir nuevos intereses: estudios etnográficos, la exploración del mundo rural andino, de las tierras atravesadas por los nómadas asiáticos o las tribus africanas. Entre ellos se encuentran quienes dicen que nacieron siendo fotógrafos, otros eligieron ese camino más adelante en la vida. Comenzaron a tomar fotografías, algunos por pura casualidad.

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 ...

La arquitectura sobresale dentro de la gran riqueza de Quetzaltenango, pues su evolución es un reflejo de la prosperidad e ideologías de su gente. Esta publicación narra los momentos históricos más significativos del aporte arquitectónico y la progresión urbana de la ciudad. Como material de formación y referencia pone en valor la contribución de Quetzaltenango a la arquitectura de Guatemala, con el fin de apreciarla y despertar el respeto que merece y el deseo de conservarla. La narrativa se organiza en seis capítulos que representan períodos históricos y culturales importantes,...

As I recall discovering this book of photographs, I remember the sense of beauty and mystery that remains undiminished almost seventy years after its original publication. On a formal plane, one can easily understand how Man Ray manipulated the optics of the camera, juxtaposing near and far, object against object, space against object, and tactile against transparent. It is also apparent how he deliberately manipulated the process of photographic printmaking, using unusual tones of black, white, and gray to transform content into spaces, forms and surfaces. However, it is not simply how Man...