Comunicación visual

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...

As I recall discovering this book of photographs, I remember the sense of beauty and mystery that remains undiminished almost seventy years after its original publication. On a formal plane, one can easily understand how Man Ray manipulated the optics of the camera, juxtaposing near and far, object against object, space against object, and tactile against transparent. It is also apparent how he deliberately manipulated the process of photographic printmaking, using unusual tones of black, white, and gray to transform content into spaces, forms and surfaces. However, it is not simply how Man...

Este libro presenta una valoración de la fotografía en la España entre guerras (1914-1939), partiendo de documentación original sobre el tema publicada en la prensa fotográfica y cultural de la época.

Por fortuna, la investigación del fenómeno cinematográfico en México ha sido abundante. Se ha abordando su problemática desde diversos ángulos y con diferentes estilos, produciendo un importante cúmulo de conocimientos. Pero la Historia del Cine es una disciplina siempre inacabada: cada trabajo abre nuevas vetas para la discusión y el análisis de la cuestión y proporciona materia prima para otros trabajos. El volumen 1 (1895: El cine antes del cine) de la colección Anales del Cine en México, 1895-1911 que nos hacen llegar ahora Juan Felipe Leal, Carlos Arturo Flores y Eduardo...