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El 1 de octubre de 1958 se puso en marcha la primera agencia espacial civil del mundo como respuesta de emergencia al lanzamiento del Sputnik por parte de la Unión Soviética un año antes. En una década, la National Aeronautics and Space Administration, universalmente conocida como NASA, paso de estar integrada por unos modestos equipos de investigacion que experimentaban con pequeños cohetes adaptados a convertirse en una de las empresas tecnologicas y de gestion mas grandes de la historia, capaz de llevar personas a la Luna a bordo de cohetes gigantescos y de enviar robots exploradores a Venus, Marte y mundos mucho mas lejanos. A pesar de ocasionales y tragicos reveses en la historia de la NASA, el programa Apolo sigue simbolizando la inventiva estadounidense, sus transbordadores espaciales lideraron la construccion de la Estacion Espacial Internacional y su deslumbrante conjunto de satelites astronomicos, modulos de descenso y programas de geociencias han transformado nuestra comprension del cosmos y del fragil lugar que ocupa en el nuestro mundo. A lo largo de los 60 años de historia de la NASA, las imagenes han desempañado un papel fundamental. ¿Quien no esta familiarizado hoy con las fascinantes imagenes del universo que nos brinda el telescopio espacial Hubble o con las nitidas panoramicas de Marte enviadas por los vehiculos de exploracion espacial de la NASA? ¿Y quien podria olvidar las fotografias de los hombres caminando por la superficie lunar? Este volumen compacto esta basado en nuestro libro XXL, documentado y editado en colaboracion con la NASA, y reune cientos de fotografias e imagenes renderizadas poco conocidas que han sido escaneadas y remasterizadas con la ultima tecnologia. Los textos del periodista especializado en ciencia y tecnologia Piers Bizony, del historiador jefe de la NASA Roger Launius y del famoso historiador del programa Apolo Andrew Chaikin, ademas de una extensa lista de verificaciones de la mision que documenta las principales tareas llevadas a cabo por humanos y robots, completan esta exhaustiva exploracion sobre la NASA, que abarca desde sus primeros dias hasta hoy, ocupada en el desarrollo de los sistemas espaciales para el futuro. The NASA Archives es mas que una fascinante historia visual del programa espacial de Estados Unidos. Es tambien una profunda reflexion sobre por que elegimos explorar el espacio y como vamos a enfrentarnos a esta aventura colosal en los años venideros.

When you hear the word "desert," what do you think of? If you imagine more than just endless sand, heat, and emptiness, Jurgen Wettke's The Namib Desert is the perfect photo book for you. With an excellent eye for unusual structures and colors, Wettke invigorates our imagination and shows us that the desert is a place of unexpected variety. There are only a few landscapes on earth like Namibia where shapes and colors change so rapidly while giving such an immediate feel for how our world originally came to be. Jurgen Wettke has masterfully captured this ambivalence on film and preserved once-in-a-lifetime moments of ephemeral

Far from the beaches of Spain''s Mediterranean coast, there lies a land of quiet backwaters seemingly untouched by time. Traditional architecture, as well as dramatic natural settings of which the buildings often seem to be an organic part, mark these places as being among the most unspoilt in Europe. Profiles of over 30 village gems make up the four main sections of this book. From Galicia to the Basque country in the north lie picturesque fishing villages. Patient exploration of the heart of the country reveals such delights as Pedraza''s arcaded square seen against a backdrop of snow-capped mountains. In the east, the whitewashed houses of Cadaques have become famous as an artists'' colony, while El Palmar is renowned for its paella. And in the villages of Andalucia, like Medina Sidonia, are the remains of the Moorish civilization of southern Spain. Like all the volumes in this series, "The Most Beautiful Villages of Spain" is completed by listings of places to stay and eat, and sights to visit.

Full of writing, reports, and recommendations, The Monocle Guide to Better living is original, informative, entertaining, and comprehensive. This is not a book about glitz but rather an upbeat survey of products and ideas built to treasure and last. Monocle is one of the most successful magazines to be developed in the past decade. Armed with an unmistakable sense of aesthetics and journalistic tenacity, its team -- led by editor-in-chief tyler Brule --has created an intelligent publication that continually inspires a global readership who are interested in everything from diplomacy to design. For its first-ever book, the editorial team looks at one of their core themes: how to live well. The result is The Monocle Guide to Better living, an original, informative, and entertaining collection of writing, reports, and recommendations. This is not a book about glitz but rather an upbeat survey of products and ideas meant to be treasured and last. Structured into chapters on the city, culture, travel, food, and work, the book also provides answers to some key questions. Which cities offer the best quality of life? How do you build a good school? How do you run a city? Who makes the best coffee? And how do you start your own inspirational business? The Monocle Guide to Better living works as a guide but also includes 10 essays that explore what makes a great city, why craft is desirable, how to run your own hotel, and why culture is good for you. This is not a book about fashion or the next big thing. It's a book about finding enduring values --from a career you want to keep to furniture that will last a lifetime. It's a book designed to stay relevant, loved, and used. An indispensible guidebook to contemporary life, The Monocle Guide to Better living embodies everything that makes the magazine such a success: easy style and journalistic substance."

THE FIRST BOOK WITH ONE FOOT ON THE COFFEE TABLE, AND ONE FOOT IN THE CLASSROOM Joe McNally, one of the worlds top pro digital photographers, whose celebrated work has graced the pages of Sports Illustrated, Time, and National Geographic (to name a few), breaks new ground by doing something no photography book has ever doneblending the rich, stunning images and elegant layout of a coffee-table book with the invaluable training, no-nonsense insights, and photography secrets usually found only in those rare, best-of-breed educational books. When Joes not on assignment for the biggest-name magazines and Fortune 500 clients, hes in the classroom teaching location lighting, environmental portraiture, and how to get the shot at workshops around the world. These on-location workshops are usually reserved for a handful of photographers each year, but now you can learn the same techniques that Joe shares in his seminars and lectures in a book that brings Joes sessions to life. What makes the book so unique is the triangle of learning where (1) Joe distills the concept down to one brief sentence. It usually starts with something like, An editor at National Geographic once told me and then he shares one of those hard-earned tricks of the trade that you only get from spending a lifetime behind the lens. Then, (2) on the facing page is one of Joes brilliant images that perfectly illustrates the technique (youll recognize many of his photos from magazine covers). And (3) you get the inside story of how that shot was taken, including which equipment he used (lens, f/stop, lighting, accessories, etc.), along with the challenges that type of project brings, and how to set up a shot like that of your own. This book also gives you something more. It inspires. It challenges. It informs. But perhaps most importantly, it will help you understand photography and the art of making great photos at a level you never thought possible. This book is packed with those Ah ha! momentsthose clever insights that make it all come together for you. It brings you that wonderful moment when it suddenly all makes sensethat moment it clicks.

This book documents the making of the legendary film The Misfits (1961). Directed by the Hollywood auteur John Huston, it starred three of the most charismatic actors of all time Marilyn Monroe, Clark Gable and Montgomery Clift and had a script by Arthur Miller, one of Americas greatest playwrights and Monroes husband. As part of the promotional strategy for the film, the Magnum photographic agency was given exclusive access to the shoot. Nine of its most famous photographers including Henri Cartier-Bresson, Eve Arnold and Elliott Erwitt covered the production, both on and off the set. Two hundred of their pictures are reproduced in The Misfits: Story of a Shoot in rich duotone, providing both a fascinating documentary of the making of a film and an intimate portrait of its stars. The photographs are accompanied by an essay by the editor-in-chief of the film magazine Cahiers du cinema, Serge Toubiana, in which he recounts the tragic and triumphant story of the film that was to become Monroe and Gables swansong. The book also contains a revealing interview between Toubiana and Arthur Miller, in which Miller discusses the making of the film, the troubled relationships between the stars (including his own with Monroe) and the background to the photographs.

A compilation of writings on photography by one of the most influential photographers of the 20th century. His observations ring with the same immediacy and visual intensity that characterize his photographs. Writings from Cartier-Bresson's books are included, as well as essays on his travels and commentary on photographer friends. Some of the sele

Un hommage photographique à la "voiture de sport du siècle", qui couvre 60 ans d'histoire du modèle, des voitures de courses 300 SL de 1952 jusqu'à la toute nouvelle génération de SL.

Hearing the call of the wild and capturing it on camera are two very different things, as the 10 photographers featured in the new book The Masters of Nature Photography can attest. They sometimes spent months tracking their subjects or stood waist-deep in lakes for hours. Still, nature photography is an underappreciated art, says the book's editor, Rosamund Kidman Cox. Because wildlife photography has historically been used mainly to record animals rather than to create art, the job was left to scientists who weren't trying to take something beautiful, says Ms. Cox. But recent improvements in photography, such as larger lenses and digital features, have allowed photographers to get more up-close and artistic.--Alexandra Wolfe"Wall Street Journal" (09/27/2013)

Mientras que el desnudo femenino ha desempeñado un papel evidente en la iconografía occidental, el desnudo masculino no siempre ha disfrutado de tanta atención o aceptación. Esta oda al físico masculino es un homenaje a esta forma de arte en evolucion y, en su dia, ilicita, desde el erotismo anonimo del siglo XIX hasta la obra contemporanea de David Hockney y Duane Michaels. A traves de lo clasico, lo jugueton y lo provocativo, repasa las composiciones, posturas y juegos de roles de este genero tan poco explorado. Muestra la obra de destacados maestros como Herbert List, George Platt Lynes o Robert Mapplethorpe, asi como el baron Wilhelm von Gloeden, famoso por sus imagenes homoeroticas de jovenes desnudos en posturas clasicas en Sicilia. Ademas, se incluyen ilustraciones de la revista Physique Pictorial, que lidero la escena gay de mediados de la decada de 1950 y fue pionera en la edicion de tematica homosexual.