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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...

"Follows a fictional Sheffield band from Mexico, in the style of legendary magazine 'The Face' ... The context of the event [Art Sheffield 05] was 'Spectator T', a fictitious art goer without exposure to contemporary aesthetics, and the idea was to present artworks that would challenge this person's preconceived ideas about art. Thus, Toledo created a cover band that sang songs by local Sheffield groups, and named it after the cult Sheffield nightclub, The Limit, which closed in 1992. The band was created in Mexico ... where it played one local concert, then came to Sheffield, where it played ...

Jorge Ayala Blanco y yo emprendimos en 1975 una amplia investigación filmográfica que aspiraba a registrar todas las películas de largo-metraje que se habían estrenado hasta entonces en la ciudad de México. El proyecto constaba de siete volúmenes y estaba dividido por decenios. Por parecernos una pista más firme para despegar, iniciamos nuestra exploración a partir del cine sonoro. La Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México publicó nuestras Carteleras cinematográficas 1930-1939; 1940-1949; 1950-1959; 1960-1969 y 1970-1979. A estos compendios del cine sonoro seguirían, de manera...