PATIENTIA

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.

Ensayo fotográfico de Reynaldo Sietecase que tiene como único motivo los maniquíes que se exhiben para la venta en el barrio de Once, acompañado por un largo poema de su autoría. «...Porque eres algo para todos ya como un desnudo de vidriera.» Homero Expósito Con este epígrafe tanguero abre el libro, inclasificable y hermoso, de Reynaldo Sietecase sobre los maniquíes. Cuando el autor se mudó al barrio de Balvanera/Once, empezó a fotografiar los distintos maniquíes en los distintos negocios del barrio: mujeres, hombres, flacos, obesos, niños, niñas, perros, hombres con cabeza de ...

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...

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...