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The capital of the 20th century in photobooks, from Berenice Abbott to Thomas RomaNew York in Photobooks gathers and studies a selection of images of the capital of the 20th century, one of the most photogenic and most photographed cities in history. Through a wealth of gorgeous reproductions of photobook spreads, the city of skyscrapers is captured from the zenith of its construction in the 1930s to the destruction of the World Trade Center i...

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Toluca Aeditions, a publishing house founded in Paris by Alexis Fabry and Olivier Andreotti, was the object of a retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in Mexico City in 2009.

In 1979 Graciela Iturbide took a series of photographs of the Zapotec culture, published as Juchitán de la mujeres. This is certainly the best known of all her works. It is the result of ten years of work, numerous trips to the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, and a prolonged experience of living among its inhabitants. None of the subjects of these photographs was captured candidly, all were carefully posed. The present edition follows two previous one...

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In "The Dark Book, " Omar Gamez trespasses into the spaces designed for casual encounters between gay men in Mexico City, photographing nocturnal trysts with a photographic strategy that permits both anonymity and ambiguity. This compact volume contains 28 black-and-white photographs.

In addition to its direct translation meaning "little light, " the title "Poca Luz" alludes to a phrase used in Mexican popular speech to express indignation or admiration. In his photographs, Belgian artist and writer Ivan Alechine (born 1952) uses the disappearance of Mexico's indigenous lifestyle to investigate the interrelation of ecological damage and the decreasing value placed on practical thinking.

White Elephant is the bilingual catalogue (Spanish/English) of the Franz West exhibition at the Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo in Mexico City, and includes some works never presented before. The works show the relation of West's production with people, playing with the implications of museum display, whose power lies in the transformation of what museums contain into cult objects. Needless to say, the exhibition includes some of his "adaptiv...