Sara Facio. La foto como pasión

Alfredo Coviello: Nacido en Buenos Aires el 25 de abril de 1898. Centro de sus actividades: Tucuman. Anos de mayor actuacion: 1933 a fines de 1943. Sede principal de sus actividades: el diario La Gaceta. Otros ambitos: Universidad Nacional de Tucuman, Sociedad Sarmiento, Filial Tucuman de la Sociedad Argentina de Escritores (S.A.D.E.). Fundador y director de la revista Sustancia. Fallecio en Tucuman, a los 46 anos de edad, el 13 de julio de 1944."

Este libro presenta una valoración de la fotografía en la España entre guerras (1914-1939), partiendo de documentación original sobre el tema publicada en la prensa fotográfica y cultural de la época.

Presentamos aquí una segunda edición corregida y ampliada de esta antología, introducida por la Doctora, crítica de cine y profesora del City College of San Francisco Moira Sullivan, una de las investigadoras de Maya Deren más importantes a nivel mundial. La principal aportación a esta nueva edición –que se abre con un pequeño poema de la cineasta de 1941–, es el diario de rodaje de la película The Private Life of a Cat (1946), dirigida por Alexander Hammid y concebida por Deren; se incluyen asimismo su declaración de principios completa, los programas de mano de las...

Did you know that two winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature (Hemingway and Faulkner) worked on the story of To Have and Have Not (1944)? Did you know that the origin of the term "paparazzi" comes from Fellini’s La Dolce Vita (1960) which has a character called Paparazzo who photographs celebrities? Did you know that David Lean’s Lawrence of Arabia (1962) is the longest film which has no woman speaking part? Did you know that in the first Academy Award competition in 1929, Rin Tin Tin polled more votes than anyone else for the Best Actor, but his name was removed from the list of...

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...