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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...

El presente volumen tiene un significado especial, pues fue en 1898 cuando se exhibieron en México dos desacostumbradas películas de larga duración en una época en la que prácticamente toda la programación estaba constituida por filmes muy cortos: la producción de Enoch J. Rector del encuentro pugilístico entre el estadounidense James J. Corbett y el inglés Robert J. Fitzsimmons, documental de 518 metros de longitud y una duración de 90 minutos, y una Pasión de Cristo que rodó Richard G. Hollaman —presidente del Eden Musée de Nueva York— en la azotea de un gran hotel de la...

Christoph Drange travelled to Venezuela in early 2013. He focused his attention on the phenomenon of a socialist society that retains several vestiges of capitalism and is characterised by a culture of inequality.His photographs show the encounter between the aspiration and reality of a socialist country, which actually isn't one. Hecho En Socialismo - Socialism Today in Venezuela is more than a documentary snapshot.It is primarily a reflection and self-questioning on the current potential of a socialist alternative in the face of an all-encompassing, global capitalism.German, English and...

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.