This book was co-edited with Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA), in coincidence with the exhibition “Mundo Propio. Fotografía moderna argentina 1927-1962”, curated by Facundo de Zuviría. It compiles works by prominent Argentinean and foreign photographers based in Buenos Aires who, from de 1930’s, introduced a modern way of thinking to their discipline, aspiring to position photography in the same hierarchy as other artistic expressions. 

It includes photographs by Juan Bechis, Horacio Coppola, José Costa, Alicia D’Amico, Juan Di Sandro, Gisele Freund, George Friedman, Manuel Gómez, Annemarie Heinrich, Alex Kein, Sameer Makarius, Hans Mann, Julio Maubesin, Rodolfo Ostermann, Pedro Otero, Humberto Rivas, Anatole Saderman, Ricardo Sansó, Fred Schiffer, Nicolás Schonfeld, Boleslaw Senderowicz, Grete Stern, Augusto Ignacio Vallmitjana and Sivul Wilensky.