The photobook has boomed with major studies on worldwide and rehional publications but this is the first ever approach to the rich and unknown world of the Spanish photobook in a moment where Spanis
Mujercitos (effeminate man) historicizes the photographs of men dressed as women in the periodical Alarma during the 70's in Mexico. This research examines how these photographs participate in the
Founded in 1958, Akadem Gorodok was the principal educational and scientific center of Siberia (in the former USSR), with 65,000 scientists and more than 25 miles of underground rooms. This book by Me
This volume is an expanded edition of the most important study ever published on modern illustrated books in Mexico. Mexico Illustrated 1920-1950 explores the illustration and poster work of great Mex
The black and white images presented in this body of work have a solitude presence without any human figure. All photos were taken from 2008 to 2010 in Uwajima, city, Ehime ken (prefecture), Shikoku,
This album captures family altars arranged for the Day of the Dead that have still not been contaminated by the tourist phenomenon of the celebration. In these photographs, the presence of death is no
As one of today's most influential political photographers, Anderson has enjoyed rare behind the scenes access to inner workings of the American political theater. The result is a surprising look that
As if they were motion picture stills, the images in this book make up a sequence of people and scenes of the Calle Junin, one of the best-known thoroughfares in Medellin, Colombia. The concept of the
RM's new Other Literature series highlights the importance of libraries as structures of knowledge and as architectural entities. This volume explores the theme in works by leading Mexican artist Jorg
Originally from the Valencia region, Berenguer moved to Barcelona to study. There he lived through the tumult of the final years of the Franco regime and the early years of the transition to democracy
Subjects such as the new fascism of individuality, gestural phonetics, and dif- ferent ways of disseminating words are contrasted with images of the encrypted alphabet transformed into ocarinas, with
There are believers, agnostics, and atheists when it comes to divinities, but almost no one doubts the existence of death. Lest this fear throw a permanent shadow over our souls, we search constantly
For years now, certain places on the planet have rivaled one another in their almost obscene levels of extravagance, gaudiness, and environmental irresponsibility, all fueled by petrodollars. The pers
The capital of the 20th century in photobooks, from Berenice Abbott to Thomas Roma New York in Photobooks gathers and studies a selection of images of the capital of the 20th century, one of the most
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The very best of Saul Leiter's work comes together as an almost novel-like stream of images, interspersed with poetic quotes by the man himself. I have never seen his work so delicately and thoughtfully presented. -Todd Hido, Photo-eyePhotography lovers the world over are now embracing Saul Leiter, who has enjoyed a remarkable revival since fading into relative obscurity in the 1980s. In this gorgeously produced volume--the Japanese edition of which was selected by photographer Todd Hido as one of Photo-eye online bookstore's Best Books of 2017--some 200 works, from early street photographs and images for advertising to nudes and paintings, cover Leiter's career from the 1940s onward. These are accompanied by quotations from the artist himself that express his singular worldview.
