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Porco Rosso es una de las películas más personales e introspectivas de la filmografía de Hayao Miyazaki. Su éxito confirmó la dinámica positiva que logró Studio Ghibli a principios de los noventa, cuyos puntos culminantes fueron La princesa Mononoke(1997) y El viaje de Chihiro (2001). La historia, situada en 1929 durante la Italia fascista gobernada por Benito Mussolini, tiene como protagonista a un solitario piloto de hidroaviones que, tras vivir el horror de la Primera Guerra Mundial, regresa milagrosamente transformado en un cerdo antropomorfo. Convertido en cazarrecompensas, vive...

These modern and unconventional photographs portray an Italy that is very different from the one most people are accustomed to seeing on postcards. In this book, Italy and its heritage of nature, history, culture and humanity are presented from a unique vantage point — the sky — with pictures taken by two of today's most respected specialized photographers.

As I recall discovering this book of photographs, I remember the sense of beauty and mystery that remains undiminished almost seventy years after its original publication. On a formal plane, one can easily understand how Man Ray manipulated the optics of the camera, juxtaposing near and far, object against object, space against object, and tactile against transparent. It is also apparent how he deliberately manipulated the process of photographic printmaking, using unusual tones of black, white, and gray to transform content into spaces, forms and surfaces. However, it is not simply how Man...