Fotografías

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...

This is an anthropological essay that studies social dynamics of Mexicos city from the perspective of its inhabitants. An analysis about the relationship of their everyday life with the history of the city is made from questionnaires and the exhibitions of images to a group of people- taxi drivers, traffic cops, deliverymen of goods, students, housewives, street sellers and middle class motorists.

See the full beauty of our night sky revealed as never before in over 200 photographs from around the world. Bringing together the images of over 40 photographers across 25 countries, be astounded by the lights of the night sky in some of the darkest places on earth; discover the beauty of galaxies, planets, and stars; view great celestial events; and see some of the world’s most important landmarks against the backdrop of an incredible nightscape. Babak Tafreshi, founder of the international organization The World at Night, has curated the images in this collection—many of them...

A través del daguerrotipo tomado desde el mirador del Valle (muy cerca de la entrañable ermita de la Virgen), se entra por “la puerta grande” de la historia del daguerrotipo en España. Apenas se cuenta en nuestro país con una treintena de imágenes de este tipo, y por ser esta de la ciudad de Toledo, uno de los mejores ejemplos conservados, de una extraordinaria y singular riqueza. La profesora y especialista en Historia de la Fotografía, María de los Santos García Felguera, ha realizado un extraordinario trabajo de investigación en torno a este hallazgo, enmarcándolo en su...