Flower women

The dramatic work of photographer Daniel Hernandez-Salazar and its social and political context are presented in this powerful, comprehensive overview on recent Guatemalan history, which captures the state-sponsored terrorism and mass killings that took place during the country's long civil war.

A través del daguerrotipo tomado desde el mirador del Valle (muy cerca de la entrañable ermita de la Virgen), se entra por “la puerta grande” de la historia del daguerrotipo en España. Apenas se cuenta en nuestro país con una treintena de imágenes de este tipo, y por ser esta de la ciudad de Toledo, uno de los mejores ejemplos conservados, de una extraordinaria y singular riqueza. La profesora y especialista en Historia de la Fotografía, María de los Santos García Felguera, ha realizado un extraordinario trabajo de investigación en torno a este hallazgo, enmarcándolo en su...

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...