Fotografien

En 1997 España se convirtió en el primer país europeo en emprender una edición propia de la revista National Geographic.En motivo de su 25 aniversario, National Geographic Españapresenta esta recopilación de las 25 historias que más nos han emocionado en este cuarto de siglo. De su mano no solo hemos recorrido todos los confines del mundo y más allá, desde el río Níger hasta Marte, sino que también ha puesto en valor nuestros espacios naturales más próximos y las criaturas que los habitan, como el oso pardo, y nuestro pasado, como Atapuerca o las cuevas de Altamira.Descubre las...

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."