Itzel Vargas Plata (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Jumbo-sized. Good - Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name - GOOD.

Hardcover. First edition, 2010, first printing. Near Fine+ with hints of shelf wear and handling; no dj as issued. BOOKS SHIP THE NEXT BUSINESS DAY, WRAPPED IN PADDING, IN A BOX. "The aerial photographs of Pablo Lopez Luz (b. 1979) rove across the urban landscapes of his native Mexico, capturing scenes of dense civic activity and more pastoral areas on urban perimeters. Luz's bird's-eye viewpoint endows his images with the feel of staged artifice, while also permitting the viewer the rare possibility of appraising a vast spread of visual information, and the extraordinary impact that urban populations have as they encroach in ever-increasing circles upon the landscape around them. Pablo Lopez Luz contains color photographs produced over the last five years in Acapulco, Chiapas, Mexico City and Tijuana, plus another series made in Hong Kong." Photographs by Pablo Lopez Luz; essays by Itzel Vargas Plata and Horacio Fernandez. From a first edition limited to 1500 copies. 104 pages; 63 color plates + 20 text illustrations; 9.75 x 12.25 inches. Text in English and Spanish. Due to size and weight, international and expedited shipping will be more than quoted.…

Slipcased. Condition: All Fine. Bw illustrated card wraps with gold lettering. Deep French flaps, illustrated. 275 pp. with illus. throughout in color and bw. Also a booklet of white, stapled paper wraps with bw drawings and color photos; 71 pp. with 5 folding plates and one gatefold. Both housed in a board slipcase matching the main, bw volume. Texts in Spanish (Mexican) and English. A documentation of the entire exhibition history of the MPBA, from its opening in 1934 to 2012; 78 shows in all. Includes a section on the history of the museum itself, a complete chronological list of the exhibtions. Full of essays, images in color and bw, and all sorts of fascinating artistic information on/by art, artists, museum directors, etc. The white booklet is essays by the current generation of artists on their interpretations of the murals in the Palacio. Authors include Jorge Satorre, Edgardo Aragon, Omar Barquet, Marcela Armas with Santiago Itzcoatl, Julieta Aranda, and Pablo Lopez Luz.…

Hardcover. Condition: New. The aerial photographs of Pablo LÃ pez Luz (born 1979) rove across the urban landscapes of his native Mexico, capturing scenes of dense civic activity and more pastoral areas on urban perimeters. Luz's bird's-eye viewpoint endows his images with the feel of staged artifice, while also permitting the viewer the rare possibility of appraising a vast spread of visual information, and the extraordinary impact that urban populations have as they encroach in ever-increasing circles upon the landscape around them. For Luz, aerial photography serves the purposes of social critique, allowing him "to portray the effect that overpopulation followed by a lack of structure or guidelines in the development of cities alters the city s terrain and land." Pablo LÃ pez Luz contains color photographs produced over the last five years in Acapulco, Chiapas, Mexico City and Tijuana, plus another series made in Hong Kong.…