Fotografía de Casiano Alguacil. Monumentos Artísticos de España

Tells the participation of women behind the camera since the creation of the National School of Arts and Crafts for Girls in 1910, an idea of president Benito Juárez, which included photography classes to 2010. The richness of the volume lies not only in the text but the very large photographic portfolio constitutes the bulk of the book, with the reproduction of photographs taken by women over 100 years ago.

These modern and unconventional photographs portray an Italy that is very different from the one most people are accustomed to seeing on postcards. In this book, Italy and its heritage of nature, history, culture and humanity are presented from a unique vantage point — the sky — with pictures taken by two of today's most respected specialized photographers.

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...

Nos encontramos inmersos en una era en la que imágenes de todo tipo nos rodean y emiten mensajes diversos que no siempre somos capaces de comprender. Ante esta situación se hace necesario retomar el control, desarrollar aptitudes para leer, analizar y crear imágenes. La comunicación visual engloba disciplinas relacionadas con la capacidad comunicativa de las imágenes, cuya relevancia es cada vez mayor frente a la comunicación escrita. Esta obra pretende dar un paso más y ofrecer una reflexión más profunda sobre una de las disciplinas que la conforman: la fotografía cinematográfica, ...