Pedro Román (1878-1948) poeta de la imagen

With Torero, Ruven Afanador juxtaposes the incredible beauty of young bullfighters and old-world Latin traditions with a couture-inspired vision of the opulent costumes and the ritualistic elements of the matador culture, and narcissism, an integral aspect of fashion photography. Afanador opens the door to the famously closed society of bullfighters, offering his elegant, private view of the young matadors raised in a centuries-old Latin tradition, capturing their balletic beauty, and their distinctly erotic aura. Through these iconic portraits, Afanador also gorgeously documents the...

La Ciudad de México llegó a ser la zona con el mayor número de casetas telefónicas de todo el país con 13 por cada 1,000 habitantes. Sin embargo, la llegada del internet y de la telefonía móvil modificó la anterior forma de comunicarse con estos nuevos hábitos y dispositivos inteligentes que fueron desplazando estas cabinas que últimamente ya solo anuncian los planes de servicio mas recientes de la compañía pues desde hace mucho dejaron de ofrecer su servicio de origen para hacer llamadas y de las que en buena medida ya solo queda en la memoria su recuerdo. Este fotolibro refleja...

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."

Laszlo Moholy-Nagy's 60 Fotos published in 1930 as the first book in the planned Fototek series on 'New Photography', 60 Fotos is a complex and multi-layered dialogue using some of Moholy-Nagy's finest examples of 'straight' photographs, negative prints, photograms, and photomontage. Books on Books no. 12 reproduces every page spread from this classic treatise on photography along with a contemporary essay from the noted photo-historian David Evans