Microgeografías de Madrid

Escritores y artistas son seres excepcionales portadores de las ideas más agudas y exactas, a las que les dan forma poética o un fondo filosófico. Esta recopilación de citas habla de todas las artes (literatura, música, danza, pintura...), de la locura de

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."

Postales íntimas de los placeres más transgresores Concebido como un mosaico de episodios, vivencias, costumbres y personas, «La Barcelona erótica» se adentra, con más de 200 fotografías históricas, en las mil intimitades de unos años donde la ciudad cosmopolita iba escribiendo los capítulos para nuevas fantasías: desde el primer «topless» a las tiendas de condones, desde el barrio Chino a los «meublés» más frecuentados o desde los «sex-shops» a los espectáculos del mítico Bagdad. Postales teñidas de placer y deseo, en una Barcelona entre pagana y puritana, pero que no...