Eden is a Magic World by Miguel Calderón (Little Big Man, 2011): a story of Korean teenager’s obsession with a Mexican child actress.
Los Ninos de Aqui by Thea Segall (Editorial Arte, Caracas, 1979) celebrates UNESCO’s International Year of the Child.
Troubles de la Vue by Milagros de la Torre (Toluca Éditions, Paris, 2003) is a one year record of the artist’s bruises in a high end book/object.
New Mexican Grandeur by Hector Garcia (Mexico City: Petroleus Mexicanos, 1967) presents the Mexican capital as a glorious metropolis.
La Margarita by Alfredo Boulton (Ediciones Macanao, Caracas, 1981): iconic work by one of the most influential figures in Venezuelan culture.
Neruda: entierro y testamento (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, 1973): Fina Torres documents the funerals of Pablo Neruda.
Mitopoemas Yanomam (Olivetti de Brasil S.A., 1978): one of the lesser known and most unsual books by Claudia Andujar.
José Medeiros’ book (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: O Cruzeiro, 1957) remains the most important work on Candomblé, a syncretic religion practiced mainly in Brazil.
La ultima ciudad by Pablo Ortiz Monasterio (Mexico City: Casa de las imagenes, 1996) is a kaleidoscope of dramatic black and white street photographs of Mexico City.
Vivir o morir by Alfonso Alcalde (Santiago: Quimantu, 1973) documents a legendary 1972 airplane accident and the 16 survivors rescued 70 days later.
Sartre Visita a Cuba by Alberto Korda & Ernesto Fernandez (Havana: Ediciones R, 1961) documents Sartre and Beauvoir in Havana in 1960.
Los amorales by Carlos Amorales (Amsterdam: Artimo, 2000) takes a look at Mexican lucha libre (free wrestling).
Chile ayer hoy (Santiago, Editora Nacioanl Gabriela Mistral, 1975) is a strong example of the Chilean propaganda machine and militarized graphic design.
The iconic Para verte mejor, america latina (The Better to See You, Latin America) by Venezuelan photographer Paolo Gasparini (Siglo XXI Editions, Mexico City, 1972).
Laróyè by Mario Cravo Neto (Áries Editora, 2000) captures vibrant colors on the streets of Salvador, Brazil.
Belgian photographer Christian Belpaire, who spent much of his life in Venezuela, documents Yanomami culture in his photobook Dejaste atrás lo lejano (Caracas: Ediciones Fundacion Neumann, 1985)
Layered circular motion from 1931. Asahachi Kono in the second gallery at Howard Greenberg.
A seductive eye amid the geometries. František Drtikol in the second gallery at Howard Greenberg.
Telescoping fragments of astroturf. Gabriel Orozco in the Storylines group show at the Guggenheim.
The reclining glamour of Frida Kahlo. Leo Matiz at Throckmorton Fine Art.
