Fotografías

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Microgeografías de Madrid es un bello libro de fotografías que nos muestra una ciudad que aún guarda rincones por descubrir. Cerraduras en mal estado, persianas de colores, construcciones derruidas, puertas esperando ser abiertas, escaleras que nunca terminan... Este es el Madrid que Belén Bermejo representa con sus fotografías y su escritura, un lugar secreto e íntimo que refleja la poética de lo cotidiano. La autora destinará los beneficios íntegros de este libro para proyectos del área de Oncología Médica del Hospital de La Princesa de Madrid.

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...

Graphic designer López Castro presents a collection of photographs of street paintings of the Virgin of Guadalupe, a methodological documentation project of a distinctive Mexican folkart he started in 2002 and that culminated in the present book that includes the prologue of anthropologist Roger Bartra. Of the book the author states -"The Guadalupana is the virgin of the poor. That is why in this book I try to make it evident how each Mexican paints her as best as they can, as they need her or with the only purpose of having her present during their daily street walking."