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La Mirada (the gaze) presents nine outside their country almost unknown Latin American artist-photographers. The works of the last 20 years range from straight photography to the staged image. This title describes not only gaze of the camera directed towards a specific subject, but also the artistic attitude and mental approach of the nine artists and their diverse views on photography.

Featuring vivid photographs of the Amazon's native people and their traditions, this extraordinary and exceptional work documents the story of a true adventurer while also providing the valuable research of the legendary explorer Richard Evans. His pupil, Wade Davis, compiled and edited all of his work, resulting in this incredible biographical essay. Incluyendo fotografías vivas de la gente nativa de la Amazonía y sus tradiciones, esta obra extraordinaria y excepcional documenta la historia de un verdadero aventurero mientras provee la valiosa investigación del legendario explorador...

Nadar, whose real name was Felix Tournachon (1820-1910), was a conspicuous, even astonishing presence in nineteenth-century France. Engaging and quick-witted, he invented himself over and over as a bohemian writer, a journalist, a romantic utopian, a caricaturist, a portrait photographer, a balloonist, an entrepreneur, a prophet of aeronautics. The name "Nadar" was on everyone's lips. Today, it is Nadar's photography that is remembered. His sitters, who were often his friends, included the great men and women of his time: Dumas, Rossini, Baudelaire, Sarah Bernhardt, Daumier, Berlioz, George...

En las memorias de su infancia José Revueltas recordó alguna vez que "[...] de chico siempre me desvivía porque me compraran proyectores con lámpara de alcohol, iba al Volador a comprar cintas viejas, por metro [...]". Recordaba también las proyecciones públicas, en su infancia en Durango: "Era gratis, ponían una sábana en la plaza y proyectaban películas, a mi me parecía algo mágico, verdaderamente extraordinario [...]". Entre aquel transcurrir de la infancia a la adolescencia y la juventud, viendo el cine mudo italiano, o el cine de Chaplin, José Revueltas se convirtió en un...