Cotidiano Latino United States

Chino Valley was once part of the immense Rancho Santa Ana del Chino grant conferred in 1841 to Don Antonio Lugo, the former alcalde of Los Angeles. Forty years later, a portion of the rancho was sold to Richard Gird, an American entrepreneur and prospector from Tombstone, Arizona. With characteristic Yankee ingenuity, Gird increased his holdings to nearly 50,000 acres in a short period of time, planned and developed the present-day city of Chino, and transformed the valley into an agricultural empire based on sugar beet production. Chino later emerged as the center for the California dairy...

En la “Presentación” de este volumen de la colección Cartelera del cine en México, 1903-1911, Juan Felipe Leal nos ofrece un panorama sorprendente de los orígenes del cine alemán, todavía insuficientemente documentados, cuyas producciones comenzaron a brillar con luz propia en las pantallas mexicanas a partir de 1906. En ella desfilan inventores de aparatos y equipos como los hermanos Skladanowsky y Oskar Messter; pioneros del uso de máquinas traga-monedas como Ludwig Stollwerck y Curt Harzer; fabricantes de película virgen como la AGFA y la Bauer; cadenas de cines como la...

Este libro presenta una valoración de la fotografía en la España entre guerras (1914-1939), partiendo de documentación original sobre el tema publicada en la prensa fotográfica y cultural de la época.

Exploring the lifestyle of a lesser-known indigenous tribe, this photographic journey captures the daily lives of the Wayuu fishermen who live in northwestern Venezuela and northeastern Colombia on the Guajira Peninsula and are known as the Apalaanchi—“people of the beach.” Showing a group of people struggling to survive, the stunning images in this collection illustrate the culture of the Wayuu fishermen, detailing their traditions, views on mysticism, and their relationship with the sea that gives them a livelihood. From the innocent smiles of young children and the peacefulness and...