Fotografía de calle. Memoria de la ciudad

Twenty-seven countries under the gaze of Jordi Bernado, a photographer who collects the places and landscapes he has lived: some comical, some excessive, some implausible. This vision speaks of a world where life continues to alter each and every element that would initially appear well-ordered. The author's course carries us far and wide, making us his travelling companions, indeed his accomplices in the highly personal vision he constructs. Bernado comes across successively as euridte, historian, architect, sociologist, but most often as storyteller. With a perfect mastery of colour ranges, ...

An incomparable portrait artist and Colombia's most outstanding photographer of the second half of the 20th century, Hernán Díaz is a cultured and versatile professional. Together, the hundred black-and-white photographs collected in this book form a gallery of Colombia's most important social, cultural, and political figures from the 1960s to the present day. Though the subjects are often public figures, Díaz's evident comradery with them brings a rare intimacy to their portraits. A critical study of his work accompanies the reproductions. En la fotografía de escenas y de gentes...

‘He aquí la prueba de que la suciedad también produce excelencia.’ - Lupe Pinar - ‘Las fiestas de Gran Cañón Mogambo tienen algo que no reconozco en la vida que llevo porque no creía posible que la diversión y el amor pudieran representarse así. Xurxo hace fotografías a las que yo haría fotos si estuvieran expuestas. Me hace pensar que he ignorado a una parte importante de mi generación.’ - Adrián Fauro - ‘A base de fogonazos, en este libro se traza un arco salvaje por la juventud de un muchacho único que, en la sombra de la universidad, encendió fuegos poderosos y se...

A look at the work of sixteen postwar Mexican photographers--including Tina Modetti, Flor Gardegno, and Eugenia Vargas--shows how the photographers explore traditional themes in Mexican culture with innovative styles.