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El presente volumen tiene un significado especial, pues fue en 1898 cuando se exhibieron en México dos desacostumbradas películas de larga duración en una época en la que prácticamente toda la programación estaba constituida por filmes muy cortos: la producción de Enoch J. Rector del encuentro pugilístico entre el estadounidense James J. Corbett y el inglés Robert J. Fitzsimmons, documental de 518 metros de longitud y una duración de 90 minutos, y una Pasión de Cristo que rodó Richard G. Hollaman —presidente del Eden Musée de Nueva York— en la azotea de un gran hotel de la...

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 ...

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...