Manuel Álvarez Bravo remains Mexico’s best-known photographer, but a new breed of visual artists is producing imagery as complex and captivating as the country itself.

A complete unknown during her lifetime, the self-taught Maier created an astonishing body of documentary work that compares favorably with the genre’s masters.

Of all the forms of motor racing man has devised since the invention of the automobile, one stands alone. While rally, touring, stock car and drag racing all have their merits, none of them can match Formula One in overall mystique and excitement. Its settings are more exotic, its racetracks more challenging, its cars more supercharged and its drivers arguably more skilled.