Juan del Junco

Fotografías de Toledo y de otros lugares (con su gente, sus costumbres y sus acontecimientos) tomadas a principios del siglo XX por el pintor PEDRO ROMÁN.

A lo largo de las últimas dos décadas en Argentina numerosos documentales participan activamente en las lecturas que se realizan sobre los acontecimientos, muchas veces traumáticos, del pasado reciente. Este libro reflexiona sobre los modos de evocación que adoptan los filmes que reconstruyen las militancias revolucionarias de los setenta, su represión y las consecuencias que esta genera en la sociedad. Estos documentales de memoria se caracterizan por ciertos rasgos comunes como la apelación a los testimonios y la presentación de sus interpretaciones de los sucesos recordados a...

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