Cielo y tierra

Theoretical-critical texts on photographs taken by different authors and time periods, the violence of the documentary photography and a final reflection on the practice of photography and the possibilities of communication of images. Finally, this book is, as far as possible, provides a look again at the photograph made in Latin America, but trying to do so from the decolonized perspective, from a certain autonomy of thought, from the freedom of enunciation.ʺ (HKB Translation) Page 9.

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...

Chino Valley was once part of the immense Rancho Santa Ana del Chino grant conferred in 1841 to Don Antonio Lugo, the former alcalde of Los Angeles. Forty years later, a portion of the rancho was sold to Richard Gird, an American entrepreneur and prospector from Tombstone, Arizona. With characteristic Yankee ingenuity, Gird increased his holdings to nearly 50,000 acres in a short period of time, planned and developed the present-day city of Chino, and transformed the valley into an agricultural empire based on sugar beet production. Chino later emerged as the center for the California dairy...

“Breve historia de la crítica cinematográfica en México” es un libro que indaga en el cine mexicano desde sus orígenes, para develar su lado crítico. Lleva al lector de la mano a través de la historia, usando como hilo conductor las diferentes expresiones de la crítica cinematográfica, desde Alfonso Reyes y Martín Luis Guzmán con su columna Fósforo, hasta los grandes críticos de hoy en día y las nuevas plataformas que se emplean para llegar a un público cinéfilo, como las redes sociales y el Youtube.