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Robert B. Haas
Through The Eyes Of The Condor: An Aerial Vision of Latin America
by National Geographic (Hardcover) (Release Date: 2007-09-18)
Step aboard a private plane for a breathtaking tour of the immense and varied wilderness of Latin America—lush lands and scenic waterways nearly impossible to experience any other way. Your guide to this remarkable vision is Robert B. Haas, award-winning environmentalist and one of the world's foremost artists in aerial photography. To create this elegant portfolio, Haas covered 14 countries and an astonishing 80 percent of the land mass of Latin America. In magnificent color and exquisite composition, he captures the majesty of the Amazon, the fickleness of rare wildlife in Patagonia, and the incredible topography of untouched lands. Photographs are presented in large double-page panoramas, inviting the viewer to appreciate their abstract qualities and become absorbed in rich details. The aerial perspective gives a generous view of the land below: While large-scale environmental effects may be seen, man's blemishes are mostly diminished when viewed against the vastness of the ...
Elena Poniatowska
Las Soldaderas: Women of the Mexican Revolution
by Cinco Puntos Press (Paperback)
The photographs of Las Soldaderas and Elena Poniatowska's remarkable commentary rescue the women of the Mexican Revolution from the dust and oblivion of history. These are the Adelitas and Valentinas celebrated in famous corridos mexicanos, but whose destiny was much more profound and tragic than the idealistic words of ballads. The photographs remind Poniatowska of the trail of women warriors that begins with the Spanish conquest and continues to Mexico's violent revolution. These women are valiant, furious, loyal, maternal, and hardworking; they wear a mask that is part immaculate virgin, part mother and wife, and part savage warrior; and they are joined together in the cruel hymn of blood and death from which they built their own history of the Revolution. The photographs are culled from the vast Casasola Collection in the Fototeca Nacional of the National Institute of Anthropology and History in Pachuca, Hidalgo, Mexico.
Steven Brooke
Seaside
by Pelican Publishing Company (Hardcover)
With nearly two hundred lush, color photographs, writer and photographer Steven Brooke takes the reader from the earliest pioneer stages of the town of Seaside to its development as an emerging cultural and intellectual center. Steven Brooke's Seaside is the guide to the town of Seaside, complete with maps, walking tours, aerial views, and a look inside some of Seaside's most beautifully decorated homes. Brooke's text includes a discussion of the architectural elements that make up the Florida style and elaborates on the widely hailed urban design principles in effect at Seaside.
Flor Garduno: Witnesses Of Time
by Aperture (Hardcover) (Release Date: 2005-06-15)
Witnesses of Time collects Flor Gardu"o's remarkable pictures where the sacred and symbolic are revealed in daily life. In remote corners of Central and South America, native Indians continue to practice ancient rituals as they have for millennia. Their rites embody a distinct worldview and a unique perception of time. The result of travels through ritual towns in Mexico, Guatemala, Peru, Bolivia, and Ecuador, Witnesses of Time encompasses landscape, architecture, ceremonies, tableaux, and individual portraits. Figures in Gardu"o's evocative images become clues to the spirituality of the Indian cosmos. Landforms hint at other as unseen orders of being. Common acts take on an extra dimension through their ritual associations, in communities that still retain their ties to the environment. Complemented by an introduction by the renowned Mexican novelist Carlos Fuentes, Witnesses of Time is a tribute to a fascinating way of life, portrayed with an unparalleled grace.
Thierry Le Goues
Superfinos Popular: Photographs from Havana
by powerHouse Books (Hardcover)
New from high-profile fashion photographer Thierry Le Goues comes a lavish artist's book, Popular--an earthy, luring tome of the rarely shown Havana social scene. In Le Goues' provocative duotone and sensuous four-color photographs, we're seduced by a culture of great joy amongst great poverty: raucous, heat-soaked street parties; spirited sparring matches in crumbling gymnasiums; voluptuous nudes plying their wares in derelict mansions; wizened balladeers savoring impossibly large Cohibas...Le Goues' models are drawn from the street: a mixture of Buena Vista Social Club stars and underground legends, the miscegenation of which, in Le Goues' expert fashion sense, serves to create a raw, sexy style--one of abandon out of necessity, out of a lust for life--a spirit Le Goues sees in Cuba as ubiquitous as the cigarettes from which the book draws its name.
Susanne Asal
Chile: A Journey Through Extremes
by Bucher (Hardcover)
Land between fire and ice. --An exciting presentation of one of South America's most varied countries. --Stunning photography, essays on history and culture. --Both the author and the photographer are Chile specialists.
Elaine Hurford
South Africa: Magic Land
by Stuik (Hardcover)
South Africa: Magic Land takes the reader on a visual journey of discovery through a land of great diversity and astounding natural beauty. It is designed for those who wish to see the best South Africa has to offer and photographs focus on those areas which travellers are most likely to visit. Recent additions include Constitution Hill, the Apartheid Museum and uShaka Marine World. South Africa is shown as a nation of contrasts, from the lush subtropical forests of Mpumalanga to the arid wilderness of the far west, and the sun-drenched golden sands of its beautiful coastline to the remote peaks of forbidden mountain ranges. The country's scenic wonders are matched only by its spectacular diversity of animal and plant life, and the richness of its multicultural society. For visitors, South Africa truly lives up to its name as a magic land .
W. Dirk Raat, George R. Janecek
Mexico's Sierra Tarahumara: A Photohistory of the People of the Edge
by University of Oklahoma Press (Hardcover)
Cuba
by Rizzoli International Publications (Hardcover) (Release Date: 1997-10-15)
Cuba is a land of mystery, at once antique and avant-garde, closed and cosmopolitan, a country of layers and contrasts. This book offers a look at a way of life that may soon disappear. Photographer Eddy Kohli captures the spirit of the people, work, land, and food in brilliant color. The impressionistic photographic vision of this country is complemented by a poetic essay about a journalist who, in his visits to Cuba, is given profound insight into the true meaning of life.
Tui De Roy
The Andes: As the Condor Flies
by Firefly Books (Hardcover)
A magnificent tour of the world's longest mountain range. The Andes of South America is the youngest, longest, most varied mountain range on the planet. Its 4,500 miles of rock and ice, forests and deserts, smoldering volcanoes and razor-sharp granite spires span the same distance as New York to Moscow. The Andes mountains are still in the full throes of formation. This dramatic process reveals itself in breathtaking forms thousands of feet high. The Andes examines this astonishing natural phenomenon with superb color photography and richly detailed text. The Andes describes: The effects of the region's plate tectonics Ecuador's cloud forests and volcanoes Peru's windswept plateaus The canyons and wetlands along the Peru-Chile border The terrain from Amazon rainforest to the Pacific desert coast The Altiplano of Bolivia The mystery forest of the Great Patagonian Divide The fiords, islands, glaciers and steppes from Patagonia to Cape Horn. Each chapter on a ...