Fotografien

Una colección sin igual de más de 550 increíbles imágenes que representan el trabajo de los mejores fotógrafos del mundo, desde la mitad del siglo XIX a nuestros días. Edición actualizada y revisada de nuestro clásico El ABC de la Fotografía que pone al día este libro clave con nuevas adiciones que cubren las últimas evoluciones en el campo de a fotografía. Ordenado alfabéticamente por fotógrafo nos encontraremos con el trabajo de pioneros como Gustave Le Gray o Daguerre, iconos como Robert Capa o contemporáneos como Richard Wentworth, Cristina de Middel o Carolee Schneemann....

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 --...

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...