Born in Spain in 1958, Madoz is one of contemporary photography's most personal and innovative artists. His work, influenced by surrealism and visual poetry, composes a complex magic universe where objects are never what they seem, or seem to be what they aren't. Madoz brilliantly plays with the perception of those who view his images and explores beyond reality.
This book tells the story of Chema Madoz through the reproduction of more than 3...
W. Eugene Smith estß considerado como uno de los padres del reportaje fotogrßfico.Su actividad durante cuarenta a±os, desde los a±os 40 hasta los 70 del siglo pasado, han hecho de Úl un referente para aquÚllos que quieren reflejar la realidad mediante la fotografÝa.
In the work Muchismo, the photographer Cristina de Middel digs around in her studios and brings all of her images to light, exactly the way she has them stored, in colossal, gorgeous chaos. This is a sui generis display of her entire oeuvre, with neither a curator nor any apparent order, which seeks to question the art market and its rules.
At the same time, this book shows a series made up of pictures taken in New
Zealand in which the artist ...
In 1979 Margaret Thatcher was elected Prime Minister of Great Britain, in 1989 the
Berlin Wall fell. One decade and two historical events that transformed Europe
and the world and served as the frame of other social, cultural and technological
revolutions: the application of protocols that would give rise to virtual
communication networks (TCP and IP), England's "no future", the "end of history"
in the United States... This volume, which compi...
The mythical Spanish photographer Alberto García Alix has produced self portraits in all times, places and circumstances. This work reflects his best self portraits and includes previously unpublished images. Alberto García-Alix's photographic, audiovisual and written work opens up an emotional, self-referential dimension that turns all his output, seen as a whole, into one great enlarged self-portrait. This book aims to help us understand a k...
Notebooks, post-its, facades, dustbins, cars... And people. The eye of the
photographer who arrives in London as a foreigner captures an entire universe
of insignificant things (trifles) which, however, can mean a lot to the newcomer.
Nominated for World Press Photo and a finalist for the Gran Prix Fotofestival, in
The Observation of Trifles the Madrid-born photographer Carlos Alba suggests
a unique, random guide through the conventionalisms o...
A photographer, broadcasting pioneer, author, publicist, collector, designer and more, Alfredo Cortina (1903-88) was a truly remarkable figure in 20th-century Venezuela. This volume compiles his photographs, a treasure trove of a testimony to the Caracas of his time.
In this book, this Australian photographer, one of the great contemporary photographers, gathers together a personal biography in which photographs mix with all kinds of personal and sentimental documents: facsimiles of his notebooks and diaries, passports, postcards, letters, drawings... They shape a collage that is as beautiful as it is disturbing in which word and image imitate each other and Pam demonstrates, as few other creators can, tha...
Jorge Yeregui is an award winning photographer and recipient of the VI International Prize for Contemporary Photography "Pilar Citoler", one Europe's most prestigious prizes in photography. This title presents an illustrated overview of the work of award-winning photographer Jorge Yeregui.
Alfonso is one of the main artifices of Spanish visual memory during the first half of the twentieth century. The Alfonso signature actually referred to the work of various photographers connected to the studio of this name. The volume reflects the quality and variety of styles that defined the spirit behind this signature. A total of sixty-one images cover a period of almost forty years in portraits and shots of urban scenes, the society of t...
Madrid's annual PHotoEspana is a visual deluge of some 60 thematically curated photography exhibitions featuring works by an international array of historical, established and emerging artists such as Dorothea Lange, Gerhard Richter and Walid Raad. This is the catalogue for 2009.
In 1957, Ramón Masats made a work that will mark a milestone in Spanish photography. This book recovers unpublished images and recomposes a narration that has stood the passage of time. Bulls, black and white, noise, folklore, music, people all over the place and some emphatic compositions make the images in this book true gems even for someone who looks at them without being aware of their historical significance or of the importance of their...