Horizontes Digitales

This title offers monographs on the most important Spanish, African and Latin American photographers. "The PhotoBolsillo" series is dedicated to publishing monographs on the most notable Spanish, African, and Latin American photographers of the recent past. Each small-format paperback features full-page, full-colour and black-and-white photographs representing the best of the artist's portfolio - each of which is captioned with title and year. Additionally there is a Chronology, plus lists of exhibitions and collections in which the photographer's work has been/is displayed, plus a brief...

This is an anthropological essay that studies social dynamics of Mexicos city from the perspective of its inhabitants. An analysis about the relationship of their everyday life with the history of the city is made from questionnaires and the exhibitions of images to a group of people- taxi drivers, traffic cops, deliverymen of goods, students, housewives, street sellers and middle class motorists.

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...

Aprenda a sorprender. Más que ninguna otra forma de arte, la naturaleza de la fotografía exige que el espectador se vea constantemente interrogado y sorprendido por nuevas imágenes e interpretaciones diferentes. Asimismo, sea bueno, de forma sistemática. El propósito de este libro es explicar qué hace que una fotografía sea excelente, a la vez que explora los recursos que utilizan los mejores fotógrafos para conseguir su propósito una y otra vez. Comprenda la composición: los famosos diagramas de Freeman rompen con los conceptos abstractos. Indague a fondo: en este libro encontrará ...