Cielo y tierra

"Este es un paseo por la ciudad de nuestros antepasados, de nuestros abuelos y padres, la que hoy buscamos heredar a nuestros hijos y nietos. La Ciudad de México está destinada a preservar su memoria hasta la consumación de los tiempos". Alejandro Rosas Jardineras en la plancha del Zócalo, una mujer remando sobre las aguas del canal de la Viga, una inmensa cancha de futbol llanero en la Zona Rosa, una estación de ferrocarril en la esquina de Insurgentes y Reforma. Estas fotografías, como dice Rafael Pérez Gay, "ocupan el pasado y abren una puerta misteriosa hacia el presente. Sin estas ...

Jeanne Damas and Lauren Bastide shine a spotlight on twenty real-life women of Paris, dispelling the myth that there's only one type of Parisian woman and introducing us to the city that real Parisiennes live in. All twenty embody the effortless chic and insouciant spirit of the legendary Parisian woman.

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...

A voyage across Mexico featuring images from the nineteenth century to the year 2001 captures more than one hundred years of photography in Mexico.