Breve historia de la crítica cinematográfica en México

Nadar, whose real name was Felix Tournachon (1820-1910), was a conspicuous, even astonishing presence in nineteenth-century France. Engaging and quick-witted, he invented himself over and over as a bohemian writer, a journalist, a romantic utopian, a caricaturist, a portrait photographer, a balloonist, an entrepreneur, a prophet of aeronautics. The name "Nadar" was on everyone's lips. Today, it is Nadar's photography that is remembered. His sitters, who were often his friends, included the great men and women of his time: Dumas, Rossini, Baudelaire, Sarah Bernhardt, Daumier, Berlioz, George...

El cine y la pornografía, Juan Pablos Editor y Voyeur, México, 2011, (Col. Anales del cine en México, 1895-1911. Vol. 7. 1901: Tercera parte), recrea los inicios del cine licencioso y las campañas de censura que los gobiernos, en especial el mexicano, instauraron para limitar las escenas subidas de tono. Bajo los cánones actuales, las imágenes eróticas que nuestros abuelos disfrutaban resultarían de una candorosa ingenuidad. Tuvo la gentileza Juan Felipe Leal de enviarme la tercera edición de su obra. Aunque es la tercera, ésta incluye información fresca respecto al fenómeno...

Es un atractivo y original estudio que se centra en uno de los aspectos menos conocido y más sugerente de la célebre escuela alemana de la Bauhaus (1919-1933): su alumnado femenino. El libro abarca desde la situación curiosa y paradójica de este colectivo, hasta la producción fotográfica singular, una vez alcanzada la notoriedad, de artistas de la talla de Gertrud Arndt, Florence Henri, Lucia Moholy, Grete Stern o Marianne Brandt.

Graphic designer López Castro presents a collection of photographs of street paintings of the Virgin of Guadalupe, a methodological documentation project of a distinctive Mexican folkart he started in 2002 and that culminated in the present book that includes the prologue of anthropologist Roger Bartra. Of the book the author states -"The Guadalupana is the virgin of the poor. That is why in this book I try to make it evident how each Mexican paints her as best as they can, as they need her or with the only purpose of having her present during their daily street walking."