Los Gatos

Esta investigación describe la fotografía de Casiano Alguacil desde un punto de vista diferente en el que la técnica utilizada, el tratamiento dado a las imágenes y las particularidades de su obra comparten protagonismo con los aspectos formales e iconográficos. Se muestra ante todo la importancia de la fotografía como documento, a partir de la que pueden extraerse múltiples lecturas, así como su consideración de objeto patrimonial y fuente histórica. Monumentos Artísticos de España es el nombre de la serie con la que Alguacil comercializó la mayor parte de sus imágenes y...

Everyone puts their silver granite. Arabesques drawings -- The indiscreet eye of the cartoonist -- Photochemical precursors -- A small push -- From scientist to merchant -- First lights: Nicephorus Niepce -- The daguerreotype -- Latin American experiments -- Talbotype or calotype -- Wet collodion -- Comic Photography -- The Dry Plate -- Photographic Industries -- Industrial Visionary -- New concepts in the profession -- Not everything was lost with the world wars -- Mexican Light and shadow. First lights -- Finisecular moments -- In search of images -- Finding ways -- Contemporary nuances --...

Images of America: Springfield Volume I gave readers a photographic history of the city’s ethnic populations and religions. It also told the story of education and public service in the “City of Firsts.” In Springfield Volume II, author Ginger Zabecki Cruickshank takes readers on a second journey through the past to the origins of the city’s many businesses, transportation systems, and social agencies, such as the YMCA and local hospitals that have served the people of Springfield, as well as some of the best sports stories in the city’s history. The stories and early photographs of ...