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In fall 2012, the hardcover edition of this book was released to critical acclaim and received several awards, including the 2013 American Society of Landscape Architects Honor Award for its innovative collaborative approach and design. Now available in a smaller, more afford - able paperback edition, Petrochemical America features Richard Misrachs haunting photo-graphic record of Louisianas Chemical Corridor, accompanied by landscape architect Kate Orff s Ecological Atlasa series of speculative drawings developed through research and mapping of data from the region. Their joint effort...

With Torero, Ruven Afanador juxtaposes the incredible beauty of young bullfighters and old-world Latin traditions with a couture-inspired vision of the opulent costumes and the ritualistic elements of the matador culture, and narcissism, an integral aspect of fashion photography. Afanador opens the door to the famously closed society of bullfighters, offering his elegant, private view of the young matadors raised in a centuries-old Latin tradition, capturing their balletic beauty, and their distinctly erotic aura. Through these iconic portraits, Afanador also gorgeously documents the...

Este libro explora nuestra historia cinematográfica a partir del archivo fílmico, la documentación, la crítica y las miradas subjetivas, que nos permiten establecer una historiografía del cine chileno y latinoamericano.

El cine ha sido un objeto problemático durante el siglo que lo vio nacer (problemático ya lo era puesto que se trataba de un ente híbrido - un poco de arte, un poco de técnica, un poco de ciencia) y sobre él han surgido discursos contradictorios. A través de las cincuenta preguntas y respuestas que se plantean en el libro, Suzanne Liandrat-Guigues y Jean-Louis Leutrat han pretendido reunir a todos los que durante un siglo han 'pensado' el cine y hacer balance de todo ese pensamiento. Pero el punto de partida es, sin duda, la divertida constatación antropológica de Giorgio Agamben -...