El papel del cine colombiano en la escena latinoamericana

Este no es un texto de crítica de películas, ni un tratado profundo sobre cine, ni el resumen de un informe de investigación, aunque seguramente tendrá elementos de todos los anteriores. Se trata de la compilación de algunos textos escritos alrededor del concepto y la experiencia de la cinefilia con una intención pedagógica y de debate. El libro que tiene en sus manos habla de la cinefilia desde la idea de que el gusto no es sinónimo de calidad. Así es como se pretende plantear una sana discusión sobre la diferencia entre ambos términos, frontera difícil y difusa que a veces...

Este libro explora nuestra historia cinematográfica a partir del archivo fílmico, la documentación, la crítica y las miradas subjetivas, que nos permiten establecer una historiografía del cine chileno y latinoamericano.

A collection of photographs by some of the most influential photographers of the twentieth century which demonstrate the wide range of techniques that have been used by photographers during the past one hundred years.

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...

The largest city in South America north of Rio, Bogota is an urban environment of more than 7 million inhabitants; like other metropolitan areas, Bogota is many cities at once. Looking through Cristobal von Rothkirk's photographic eye, here is all of Bogota-the sophisticated Hispanic city, the South American captial, the complex of urban cultures tattooed with signs of international pop culture. In this book is both a city being reshaped by our times as well as a timeless city with 500-year-old customs and festivals. Von Rothkirk sees the contrasts that show up at street level but even the...