Hombres y mujeres en Andalucía

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...

El presente volumen constituye una valiosa aportación sobre los inicios del cine norteamericano, su inclinación propagandística, su conocimiento del lenguaje de las imágenes en movimiento y también de sus limitaciones en diversos aspectos. Los autores, Juan Felipe Leal y Carlos Arturo Flores, realizaron una exhaustiva investigación en numerosas fuentes secundarias acerca de las películas que representaron la guerra que Estados Unidos y España libraron en Cuba, Puerto Rico y las islas Filipinas y que se filmaron entre enero de 1898 y enero de 1903. Todas ellas muy breves, en promedio...

A través de una selección de fotografías de artistas contemporáneos que viven o trabajan en Andalucía, se exploran las diferentes representaciones de la realidad social y cultural sobre temas como la inmigración, la discriminación sexual y de género, la contaminación o la recuperación de la memoria.

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 ...