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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...

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...

Postales íntimas de los placeres más transgresores Concebido como un mosaico de episodios, vivencias, costumbres y personas, «La Barcelona erótica» se adentra, con más de 200 fotografías históricas, en las mil intimitades de unos años donde la ciudad cosmopolita iba escribiendo los capítulos para nuevas fantasías: desde el primer «topless» a las tiendas de condones, desde el barrio Chino a los «meublés» más frecuentados o desde los «sex-shops» a los espectáculos del mítico Bagdad. Postales teñidas de placer y deseo, en una Barcelona entre pagana y puritana, pero que no...

Mi Cuba is a great gallery of true-life pictures on Cuba and a whole gamut of images spanning from the typical postcard to an ordinary person's day-to-day life. This book unveils the real face of the island through the nostalgic pages and writings of political refugees, along with the scorching visula commentary of photagrapher Stefanono Pacii recounting Cuba's special period. Gordiano Lupi's content describes the manifold aspects of Cuba's culture: music, santeria, literature, habits, superstition, fun and cuisine.