Sin miedo al retrato

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.

Twenty-seven countries under the gaze of Jordi Bernado, a photographer who collects the places and landscapes he has lived: some comical, some excessive, some implausible. This vision speaks of a world where life continues to alter each and every element that would initially appear well-ordered. The author's course carries us far and wide, making us his travelling companions, indeed his accomplices in the highly personal vision he constructs. Bernado comes across successively as euridte, historian, architect, sociologist, but most often as storyteller. With a perfect mastery of colour ranges, ...

This title offers monographs on the most important Spanish, African and Latin American photographers. "The PhotoBolsillo" series is dedicated to publishing monographs on the most notable Spanish, African, and Latin American photographers of the recent past. Each small-format paperback features full-page, full-colour and black-and-white photographs representing the best of the artist's portfolio - each of which is captioned with title and year. Additionally there is a Chronology, plus lists of exhibitions and collections in which the photographer's work has been/is displayed, plus a brief...

El cine ha sido un objeto problemático durante el siglo que lo vio nacer (problemático ya lo era puesto que se trataba de un ente híbrido - un poco de arte, un poco de técnica, un poco de ciencia) y sobre él han surgido discursos contradictorios. A través de las cincuenta preguntas y respuestas que se plantean en el libro, Suzanne Liandrat-Guigues y Jean-Louis Leutrat han pretendido reunir a todos los que durante un siglo han 'pensado' el cine y hacer balance de todo ese pensamiento. Pero el punto de partida es, sin duda, la divertida constatación antropológica de Giorgio Agamben -...