¡mirar!: Guía Para Acercarse a la Fotografía Con Joel Meyerowitz

These modern and unconventional photographs portray an Italy that is very different from the one most people are accustomed to seeing on postcards. In this book, Italy and its heritage of nature, history, culture and humanity are presented from a unique vantage point — the sky — with pictures taken by two of today's most respected specialized photographers.

El universo tiene una edad de más de 13.000 millones de años. El origen de la vida en la Tierra, comienza hace alrededor de 4.400 millones de años. Ahora, en nuestro hogar en la naturaleza, el planeta Tierra, vivimos en la nueva era del Antropoceno. El ritmo de un corazón humano adulto es de 50 a 100 latidos por minuto. La humanidad tiene un camino que se dirige desde las cavernas hasta las estrellas. La vida es la más bella flor del Paraíso. La vida es un instante, en la eternidad del cosmos. Aún estamos vivos.

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...