Fotografía

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."

Discusses how the people of Mexico honor their loved ones in death through the celebration of All Souls' Day.

El período de la historia de México conocido como la Intervención Francesa y Segundo Imperio Mexicano, es una etapa apasionada y apasionante. La suspensión de los pagos de la deuda externa del país en 1861, por el Gobierno del Presidente Benito Juárez, va a servir de pretexto para que Francia envíe a México un ejército de ocupación, hecho que gestaría la creación de una monarquía propuesta por grupos enemigos de la causa republicana. Termina este período con el fusilamiento, en el Cerro de las Campanas de la ciudad de Querétaro, de Fernando Maximiliano de Habsburgo, Miguel...

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...