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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...

Laszlo Moholy-Nagy's 60 Fotos published in 1930 as the first book in the planned Fototek series on 'New Photography', 60 Fotos is a complex and multi-layered dialogue using some of Moholy-Nagy's finest examples of 'straight' photographs, negative prints, photograms, and photomontage. Books on Books no. 12 reproduces every page spread from this classic treatise on photography along with a contemporary essay from the noted photo-historian David Evans

Una selección de la mejor fotografía de prensa del año 2020 presentada en el prestigioso concurso internacional World Press Photo, con un recorrido por los acontecimientos más destacados del año. Impresionantes fotografías galardonadas según una categoría temática, como noticias de actualidad, retratos, deportes y naturaleza, entre otras. Desde 1955, el concurso anual de World Press Photo ha establecido las bases del periodismo visual. Este libro presenta a los ganadores, las imágenes más impactantes y los reportajes gráficos más emocionantes del World Press Photo 2021....

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 --...