Tendencias fotográficas en España entre 1900 y 1940

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.

Un libro que aporta todo lo que cualquier principiante necesita saber para iniciarse en la fotografía. Ofrece respuestas sobre las prestaciones de las cámaras que podemos encontrar hoy en día en el mercado, información sobre las mejores técnicas fotográficas, ayuda para hacer fotos espaciales, consejos sobre opciones de impresión, tipos de archivos existentes, cómo trabajar con diferentes luces y espacios, así como una serie recursos creativos para encontrar un estilo más personal.

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...