Retratos

Discusses how the people of Mexico honor their loved ones in death through the celebration of All Souls' Day.

The dramatic work of photographer Daniel Hernandez-Salazar and its social and political context are presented in this powerful, comprehensive overview on recent Guatemalan history, which captures the state-sponsored terrorism and mass killings that took place during the country's long civil war.

83 fotografías, inéditas en su mayoría, muestran los logros artísticos de Carlos y Miguel Vargas. La pareja de hermanos ganó su fama gracias a sus retratos de estudio y tomas nocturnas de Arequipa: adscritos a las corrientes pictorialistas, buscaban equiparar la fotografía con el resto de las artes, sin dejar a un lado la visión comercial del medio y exploraron sus posibilidades técnicas. Junto a los retratos de personajes de la burguesía y del mundo artístico, representados de manera oficial o festiva, también se encuentran escenas de la vida cotidiana de la ciudad y de sus...

Magdalena Solé first visited Cuba in 2011 and has returned every year since, enchanted by the place and the people who live in this slender stretch of land. Her photographs reveal the stirrings of transformation, however subtle and hard to see, and reflect a Cuba that is both tough and vulnerable. Cuba hasta siempre consists of more than 150 full-color photographs taken by Solé, accompanied by a foreword written by Time columnist and travel writer Pico Iyer. With minimal text, this book offers a view of Cuba beyond the tourist trade and the wealthy upper class. The photographs portray...