Metztitlan Canyon Biosphere Reserve/Barranca de Metztitlan Reserva de la biosphere 2002 ~ Alicia Ahumada SIGNED Hidalgo, Mexico Photography

Title: Metztitlan Canyon Biosphere Reserve / Barranca de Metztitlan Reserva de la biosphere

Author: Alicia Ahumada [photographer] / Texts: Elena Poniatowska, Salvador Arias, Salvador Montes

Description: Signed by Alicia Ahumada on half-title page. First edition, limited to 2000 copies. Essays and photo captions in side-by-side English and Spanish. Fully illustrated. 133 pages. 12.3 x 8.8 inches.

Photography by the contemporary Mexican photographer Alicia Ahumada Salaiz (b. 1956), featuring 96 of her black-and-white photographs, showing the landscapes, cactuses, people and architecture of the Barranca de Metztitlan, a national biosphere reserve located in the state of Hidalgo, designated as such in 2000 by presidential decree.

Includes a prologue by Ahumada, forewords by and Antonio Bolivar and the Director of the reserve, Alejandra Rodriguez Gomez, as well as essays on Metztitlan Canyon and its history, the Convent of the Three Kings, the local succulents and cactuses, the settlers of the canyon, and the flora and fauna of the biosphere.

Binding: Soft Cover
Condition: Near Fine

Publisher: Redacta / Barranca de Metztitlan Reserva de la biosphere / Comision Nacional de Areas Naturales Protegidas / Redacta / [printed by Offset Rebosan]
Place: [Mexico City]
Year: 2002

Language: English & Spanish
ISBN: 9709343602

Keywords: photography, Mexico, Hidalgo, black and white, Mexican photographers,