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Ocean Soul is a love story. It is a story of discovery. It is a story of hope. The story begins when a boy who loves the sea attends an event with underwater photographers and has an epiphany: "I had always wanted to explore the oceans, but I now understood how I would do this. I would do it with a camera." With sheer deter­mination, hard work, and a little bit of luck the boy, named Brian Skerry, realized his dream with more than 20 awe-inspiring articles for National Geographic magazine. Now, with Ocean Soul, he showcases his stunning photography and describes his adventurous life in a gripping portrait of the ocean as a place of beauty and mystery, a place in trouble, and ultimately, a place of hope that will rebound with the proper attention and care.

No other artist, apart from J. M. W. Turner, tried as hard as Claude Monet (1840–1926) to capture light itself on canvas. Of all the Impressionists, it was the man Cézanne called “only an eye, but my God what an eye!” who stayed true to the principle of absolute fidelity to the visual sensation, painting directly from the object. It could be said that Monet reinvented the possibilities of color. Whether it was through his early interest in Japanese prints, his time as a conscript in the dazzling light of Algeria, or his personal acquaintance with the major painters of the late 19th century, the work Monet produced throughout his long life would change forever the way we perceive both the natural world and its attendant phenomena. The high point of his explorations was the late series of water lilies, painted in his own garden at Giverny, which, in their approach toward almost total formlessness, are really the origin of abstract art. This biography does full justice to this most remarkable and profoundly influential artist, and offers numerous reproductions and archive photos alongside a detailed and insightful commentary.

Patios es un segundo tributo de la editora Nelia Barletta a la ciudad colonial de Santo Domingo en co-edición con Carlo Reyes, uno de los cuatro fotógrafos participantes. Es un libro de fotografia, un libro de arte que capta Ia dimension menos visible de la ciudad colonial: sus patios. Amadeo Anselin, Nemanja Brankovic. Ricardo Briones y Carlo Reyes comparten una visión al retratar los patios y jardines de esta antigua ciudad, declarada Patrimonio Cultural de la Humanidad. Sea la vegetación exuberante o la belleza de una sencilla mesa de hierro en un patio. la magia de un nicho de hiedra o el musgo arropando piedras, las imágenes reflejan el maravilloso eclecticismo de los patios. Además de plasmar lo efímero y cambiante de la naturaleza, las fotografias docUmentan Ia intemporalidad de estos patios. vestigios de la tradición mudéjar de la época colonial. (Edición Tapa Dura)