Fotografías durante el conflicto armado en Colombia

Nadar, whose real name was Felix Tournachon (1820-1910), was a conspicuous, even astonishing presence in nineteenth-century France. Engaging and quick-witted, he invented himself over and over as a bohemian writer, a journalist, a romantic utopian, a caricaturist, a portrait photographer, a balloonist, an entrepreneur, a prophet of aeronautics. The name "Nadar" was on everyone's lips. Today, it is Nadar's photography that is remembered. His sitters, who were often his friends, included the great men and women of his time: Dumas, Rossini, Baudelaire, Sarah Bernhardt, Daumier, Berlioz, George...

"Sólo ella y yo en ese espacio nuestro, el audaz fotógrafo de Brooklyn y la mujer más sensual del mundo." Bert Stern El deseo de fotografiarla debió de nacer en ese momento. El germen de una idea aún prematura. En 1962 estoy bastante seguro de mí mismo y de mi trabajo de fotógrafo para medirme con Marilyn.

A lo largo de las páginas de este libro, su autor nos muestra, además, su enorme empatía y su proximidad humana con unas vidas al borde del abismo. Un "trotafronteras" de mirada experta que se convierte en un testigo incómodo, pero absolutamente necesario, de lo que se practica en la frontera sur española.

With Torero, Ruven Afanador juxtaposes the incredible beauty of young bullfighters and old-world Latin traditions with a couture-inspired vision of the opulent costumes and the ritualistic elements of the matador culture, and narcissism, an integral aspect of fashion photography. Afanador opens the door to the famously closed society of bullfighters, offering his elegant, private view of the young matadors raised in a centuries-old Latin tradition, capturing their balletic beauty, and their distinctly erotic aura. Through these iconic portraits, Afanador also gorgeously documents the...