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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...

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...

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.

Un impactante ensayo fotográfico sobre la Revolución Sandinista en Nicaragua, que comenzó en la década de los setenta, concebido por uno de los grandes maestros del lente, el fotógrafo Pedro Valtierra. Pedro Valtierra tenía 24 años cuando vino a Nicaragua para componer su crónica gráfica de la revolución, enviado por el diario unomásuno, un periódico entonces novedoso, recién fundado en 1977 por un grupo de periodistas independientes encabezados por Manuel Becerra Acosta [...] Cuando entró con su cámara en el paisaje de guerra de Nicaragua, su edad era la misma de muchos de los ...