Imagen y pensamiento en El Tajín

Author Alejandra Mora explores a fascinating aspect of vernacular photography: the "amplifications in cloth", a long field research that started in the town of San Pablo Huitzo, Etla, Oaxaca, and spanned all the way into Mexico City with the intention of locating the creators of such unique portraits, who using new technologies have managed to satisfy customer demands. Illuminated images that satisfied the popular beauty conceptions of the body, hairstyles, fashion and jewelry, including the wedding photography.

Ooggetuigenverslag van de verovering van de Nieuwe Wereld van de hand van een van de soldaten van Cortes.

The history of Mexico is spanned in these high-interest books written in diary form. Each book is narrated from the perspective of a woman who might have lived in that time. Text copyright 2004 Lectorum Publications, Inc.