"If years ago, the formality and pomp reigned, the informality of everyday life is to be the motto of contemporary photographers."

"There is no doubt that extensive production is being mediated by the western look, which attempts to translate the peculiarities of a country that has an exotic as the driving force, often characterized by a singular vision, with a forged more importance in the strangeness of its contents that in the photographic or artistic features that they might represent. "

More than one thread of the applicant, the picture is always the protagonist of elective affinities, the case of two important publications in the understanding of the image of the twentieth century: Glamour, Diana Vreeland, and was the Chanel of Edmonde Charles-Roux. Both are special editions that Cosac Naify put on the market in November 2011, bringing together over 600 images ...

Hard to find anyone who disagrees with the importance of the Mexican Manuel Alvarez Bravo (1902-2002) for Latin American photography. Rare also find another photographer that matches your longevity and extensive production ...

The idea of ​​publishing Photobooks Latin American (and Cosac Naify, 2011) emerged in 2007 during the First Latin American Forum of Photography, organized by Itaú Cultural in São Paulo ...

What could we expect from a book that brings together celebradíssimo a photographer and a great pioneer in publishing photobooks? At least one big book heavy, long dream of a novice who barely know what a diaphragm. But the meeting of Peter Martinelli and Virgin Earth arose, this time a small volume, a pocket! Paradoxically, it is perhaps more diverse publication on one of the most important Brazilian photographers. Martinelli, Peter, is part of the Travelers Collection which has brought Cassio Vasconcellos and Pierre Verger ...

It was launched in Brazil the book Manuel Alvarez Bravo: fotopoesia, with 374 images of the photographer. The volume has a preface by Colette Alvarez Urbajtel, tests of critical appreciation signed by the critic and historian of photography Lemagny Frenchman Jean-Claude and the novelist John Banville (Irish) and Carlos Fuentes (Mexican) and a full chronology and bibliography.

New museum Municipal Bureau of Culture of Sao Paulo, the Casa da picture, focused on research and dissemination of the history of documentary image of the city and the conservation of collections Iconographic and municipal administrations, now takes on its own headquarters: the centuries-Box 1 entirely restored.

The Collection Photo Poche, one of the largest collections of printed history of photography world, was established in 1982 by French publisher Robert Delpire through the Centre National de la Photographie, an organization linked to the Ministry of Culture and Communications of France. Since then began to be published in several countries and now, after 150 volumes, arrived in Brazil through the publisher and Cosac Naify, which this month launched its 5 first books dedicated to Henri Cartier-Bresson, Helmut Newton, Elliott Erwitt, Man Ray and Sebastiao Salgado, authors certainly dispense presentations ...

The National Geographic Magazine is a magazine centennial, the main disseminator of the National Geographic Society, founded in 1888. His publishers estimate that their audience reach 325 million in all continents of the world. Although his early editions did not bring pictures, for decades the magazine is one of the biggest references when it comes to photojournalism, which contributed a lot to those that arose themed books, like this Masters of Photography series of the same name, published in July 2011 in Brazil, by selecting four of its renowned photographers ...