El ABC de la Fotografia (The Photography Book, 2nd Edition) (Spanish Edition)

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...

The largest city in South America north of Rio, Bogota is an urban environment of more than 7 million inhabitants; like other metropolitan areas, Bogota is many cities at once. Looking through Cristobal von Rothkirk's photographic eye, here is all of Bogota-the sophisticated Hispanic city, the South American captial, the complex of urban cultures tattooed with signs of international pop culture. In this book is both a city being reshaped by our times as well as a timeless city with 500-year-old customs and festivals. Von Rothkirk sees the contrasts that show up at street level but even the...

La de 1910 es la última reelección de Porfirio Díaz, quien renuncia el 25 mayo de 1911 obligado por la insurrección maderista, que comienza formalmente el 20 de noviembre de 1910. Pero entre ambos acontecimientos (los comicios de junio-julio de 1910 y el levantamiento armado), los rivales políticos se otorgan una conveniente tregua para celebrar el primer centenario del inicio de la Guerra de independencia nacional. Once años después, en septiembre de 1921, afianzados ya en el poder los caudillos militares sonorenses, se conmemora el centenario de la consumación de la Independencia de ...

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...