In the 20th century, when pornography made its debut in the film world with its aura of improvisation and amateurishness, it had a caustic challenging quality, a freshness and a natural authenticity. By becoming industrialized and codified, it then let itself be confined in the twofold ghetto of distribution and its related rituals, churning out a pantomime of crude, unexciting, formatted images. Eroticism has always had "better press," especially since it has often been "involved" with literature and great authors have laid sacrifices on its altar. However, limited by censorship, above all self-censorship, to a restrictive representation of sex, it sentenced itself to insipidness and self-mutilation, believing it could find a way out in vain, repetitive sophistication, paradoxically proving, much to the satisfaction of moralists, that since monotony is always born out of uniformity, prefabricated pornography and eroticism have become, and remain boring.
El curso avanzado de Tom Ang es una lección personalizada acerca de todos los aspectos de la fotografía digital: mejore sus técnicas, desarrolle su visión fotográfica y aprenda a mejorar y editar digitalmente sus imagenes. Tom nos muestra, con tutorias claras, actividades practicas, proyectos explicados paso a paso y ejemplos inspiradores del arte de otros fotografos, como sacar el maximo partido a la libertad creativa que ofrece la fotografia digital.
José Díaz Martínez, experto conocedor de la montaña asturiana, nos propone un recorrido singular por los parajes del parque natural de Redes. A través de una visión más natural que estética, su cámara nos muestra con sensibilidad corzos, venados, zorros jabalies, gatos monteses, pero tambien rios, flores, musgo, y amaneceres y ocasos de texturas diversas y cautivantes. Un contacto puro con la naturaleza que ahora todos podemos compartir en esta obra, prologada por Odile Rodriguez de la Fuente.
Ce beau livre jeu, où chaque silhouette révèle la photo en couleurs d''un lion, d''un gorille comme celle d''un maki catta ou d''un okapi, est une invitation à (re)découvrir une faune riche en divers
At the turn of the century, the American photographer Edward Sheriff Curtis (18681952) started on his 30-year project to produce a monumental study of North American Indians. Using an approach that was both artistically and scientifically ambitious he recorded, in words and pictures, the traces of the traditional Indian way of life that was already beginning to die out. The most important images of Curtis' work have been included in this compact homage to the great photographer.
Tot allò que cal veure, admirar i aprendre d’una ciutat plena de vida i en constant moviment. Viure Barcelona és un gran passeig il·lustrat per la ciutat que està de moda. Tot l’esplendor de Barcelon
Board, enmarcado dentro de la colección Sport Visions, presenta un importante valor añadido debido a la inclusión de los códigos bidimensionales. Los Bidibooks, apoyados por el Universo Web 2.0, permiten al lector enlazar con videos, fotografías y textos a través de su teléfono móvil. Ofrecen de esta manera visiones alternativas de los deportes y descubren al lector el mundo de la competición de una forma rápida y atractiva.
It was no more than eight years after the surrender of the Nazi government when Josef Heinrich Darchinger set out on his photographic journey through the West of a divided Germany. The bombs of World War II had reduced the country's major cities to deserts of rubble. Yet his pictures show scarcely any signs of the downfall of a civilization. Not that the photographer was manipulating the evidence: he simply recorded what he saw. At the time, a New York travel agency was advertising the last opportunity to go and visit the remaining bomb sites. Darchinger's pictures, in color and black-and-white, show a country in a fever of reconstruction. The economic boom was so incredible that the whole world spoke of an "economic miracle." The people who achieved it, in contrast, look down-to-earth, unassuming, conscientious, and diligent. And increasingly, they look like strangers in the world they have created. The photographs portray a country caught between the opposite poles of technological modernism and cultural restoration, between affluence and penury, between German Gemütlichkeit and the constant threat of the Cold War. They show the winners and losers of the "economic miracle," people from all social classes, at home, at work, in their very limited free time and as consumers. But they also show a country that looks, in retrospect, like a film from the middle of the last century. Of his color photographs, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung wrote, "they are exceptional contemporary documents indicating how swiftly the grayness of everyday life became infused with color again."
