In october of 2014 the event 1st Encuentro sobre Fotografía Documental "Del documento al documentalʺ was organized by the program Tecnología en Producción de Imagen Fotográfica (TPIF) of the Universidad de Bogotá Jorge Tadeo Lozano, with the collaboration of the Division de Ciencias Sociales of the Universidad de Santo Tomás Part of what is collected in this book was born in that meeting.ʺ (HKB Translation) --Pages 17-18. The book is the outcome of the fourth phase (2018) of the research project El cuerpo individual y el cuerpo social en la fotografía colombiana de Luis Benito Ramos y Jorge Obando, 1930-1950ʺ coordinated by professor Beatriz Múnera, of the Universidad de Bogotá Jorge Tadeo Lozano. Each of the 12 texts of the book, in which each participant makes their own reflection about the value of the image as a document, as memory and history, is accompanied by two photographs, most of them the work of each of the authors.