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In fall 2012, the hardcover edition of this book was released to critical acclaim and received several awards, including the 2013 American Society of Landscape Architects Honor Award for its innovative collaborative approach and design. Now available in a smaller, more afford - able paperback edition, Petrochemical America features Richard Misrachs haunting photo-graphic record of Louisianas Chemical Corridor, accompanied by landscape architect Kate Orff s Ecological Atlasa series of speculative drawings developed through research and mapping of data from the region. Their joint effort...

A look at the work of sixteen postwar Mexican photographers--including Tina Modetti, Flor Gardegno, and Eugenia Vargas--shows how the photographers explore traditional themes in Mexican culture with innovative styles.

El presente volumen constituye una valiosa aportación sobre los inicios del cine norteamericano, su inclinación propagandística, su conocimiento del lenguaje de las imágenes en movimiento y también de sus limitaciones en diversos aspectos. Los autores, Juan Felipe Leal y Carlos Arturo Flores, realizaron una exhaustiva investigación en numerosas fuentes secundarias acerca de las películas que representaron la guerra que Estados Unidos y España libraron en Cuba, Puerto Rico y las islas Filipinas y que se filmaron entre enero de 1898 y enero de 1903. Todas ellas muy breves, en promedio...

Twenty-seven countries under the gaze of Jordi Bernado, a photographer who collects the places and landscapes he has lived: some comical, some excessive, some implausible. This vision speaks of a world where life continues to alter each and every element that would initially appear well-ordered. The author's course carries us far and wide, making us his travelling companions, indeed his accomplices in the highly personal vision he constructs. Bernado comes across successively as euridte, historian, architect, sociologist, but most often as storyteller. With a perfect mastery of colour ranges, ...