¡Así lo vi!: 50 años de fotoperiodismo (Spanish Edition)

Para conmemorar el centenario del nacimiento de David Alfaro Siqueiros (1896-1974) se publica esta iconograf a, estructurada de modo que nos gu e por los evento de la vida de este controvertido pintor. Este material no s lo nos muestra fotograf as del artista pl stico, sino del personaje hist rico: activista sindical, educador, orador y militante pol tico. As , las im genes nos muestran el itinerario de este artista excepcional.

La Mirada (the gaze) presents nine outside their country almost unknown Latin American artist-photographers. The works of the last 20 years range from straight photography to the staged image. This title describes not only gaze of the camera directed towards a specific subject, but also the artistic attitude and mental approach of the nine artists and their diverse views on photography.

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...

This book is published to celebrate the awarding of the 2009 International Prize for Photography Citoler Pilar to Juan del Junco (born 1972). Since 2000, del Junco has explored a kind of comedic staged photography in which (for example) a young woman paints her plants the same blue as her dyed hair, or dogs look on while a couple make love.