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Paperback. Condizione: New. This book is a 120-image journey through the biography and work of one of the great women photographers of the last century. With a brief career as a photographer, Tina Modotti was capable of creating an aesthetic of great forcefulness, becoming one of the main reporters of one of the most convulsive periods in the history of Mexico, the country where she lived and died at the age of 46.Tina Modotti's photographic work is a reflection of her life, marked by uprootedness and independence. Modotti knew how to see the beauty of the imperfect and to reflect it in her work. She developed her entire photographic work between 1923 and 1930, the years during which she lived in Mexico. Her aesthetics had an impact on the Mexican photographic scene, just as the paintings of Diego Rivera, Orozco and Siqueiros influenced her. Her photographic work is a paradigm of the fusion between Mexican revolutionary culture and avant-garde photographic aesthetics, to which she added the ideals of equality proposed by socialism and her marked social commitment.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. This book is a 120-image journey through the biography and work of one of the great women photographers of the last century. With a brief career as a photographer, Tina Modotti was capable of creating an aesthetic of great forcefulness, becoming one of the main reporters of one of the most convulsive periods in the history of Mexico, the country where she lived and died at the age of 46.Tina Modotti's photographic work is a reflection of her life, marked by uprootedness and independence. Modotti knew how to see the beauty of the imperfect and to reflect it in her work. She developed her entire photographic work between 1923 and 1930, the years during which she lived in Mexico. Her aesthetics had an impact on the Mexican photographic scene, just as the paintings of Diego Rivera, Orozco and Siqueiros influenced her. Her photographic work is a paradigm of the fusion between Mexican revolutionary culture and avant-garde photographic aesthetics, to which she added the ideals of equality proposed by socialism and her marked social commitment.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. Catalan photographer Samuel Aranda (born 1979) has spent the last 15 years documenting conflict, migration and social issues around the world, working frequently for The New York Times in Spain and the Middle East. This PHotoBolsillo volume celebrates Aranda's many artistic achievements and accolades.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. Apóstol portrays the construction of identity and gender in VenezuelaPart of La Fábrica's PHotoBolsillo series on (primarily) Latin American and Spanish photographers, this affordable introduction to Venezuelan photographer and artist Alexander Apóstol (born 1969) tracks his career as he dismantles constructions of masculinity, identity and gender in Venezuela.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. . An indispensible publication to understand the keys to art collecting. Conversations with the great art collectors, men and women from around the world that despite their different circumstances and nationalities, they are strongly united by a common spirit, the passion for art. What distinguishes these men and women is a particular way of seeing the world that they will let us discover in these exciting pages. Dani Levinas shows us useful thoughts as a result of an enormous effort and several years of work as an art collector.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. This definitive portrayal of Tina Modotti brings to life the iconic artist who throughout her life vacillated between the purity of inspired creativity and the struggle for social justice. Incorporating extensive archival material, interviews with Modotti's contemporaries and many rare photographs, this illustrated biography magnificently portrays Tina Modotti, her contemporaries and their tumultous times. Shortlisted for the prestigious Infinity Award.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. A scrapbook on Baillie's life and career, with stills, ephemera and writings by filmmakers across generationsThis is the first book on the West Coast avant-garde filmmaker Bruce Baillie (1931-2020), famed for the films Mass for the Dakota Sioux (1964), Castro Street (1966) and All My Life (1966) and for his influence on directors such as George Lucas (one of Lucas' charitable foundations helped fund the digital transfer of Baillie's films) and Apichatpong Weerasethakul. Alongside stills from Baillie's films, the book fosters a dialogue between Baillie and filmmakers and writers across several generations, including experimental filmmaker Peter Hutton, filmmaker and anthropologist J.P. Sniadecki and Jonas Mekas, along with suites of images by the Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul, British artist and experimental filmmaker Ben Rivers and Brazilian artist and filmmaker Ana Vaz, among others. Reproductions of correspondence and other ephemera are also included.…

Hardback. Condizione: New. This book, co-published with the Fundación Canal in Madrid, covers three series by Fernand Léger that attest to his original pictorial language, full of shapes and colors. On the one hand, it includes his works to illustrate the foundational essay of Cubism, signed by Albert Gleizes and Jean Metzinger. On the other, the lithographs with which he illustrated Rimbaud's book Les Illuminations and, finally, more than fifty plates dedicated to the circus, a world of fun and freedom that fascinated him since he was a child. An essential volume to explore the search of a new order that was always among his obsessions.…

Hardback. Condizione: New. . A great monograph on Joana Vasconcelos, the internationally acclaimed Portuguese artist. This book contains creative output from the period between 1996 and 2021. Discover the work of this important visual artist renowned for her monumental sculpture. This edition takes the notebooks that Joana uses daily for her sketches-on which the photographs of the pieces presented here are based- and following the example of Peter Beard's diaries. A key book for understanding the artist's ability to reinterpret Portuguese heritage. This publication brings us closer the international appeal that Joana Vasconcelos's work undoubtedly enjoys.…

Hardback. Condizione: New. From the perspective of his 90 years of age, from the height of being a legend in photography, William Klein looks back and selects his favourite works, those that he considers to be the best in his whole career, in order to pay homage to photography itself. This book, not by chance titled Celebration, is a tour to his most emblematic works: unique instants captured in New York, Rome, Moscow and Paris, in powerful black and white or striking colour. A true celebration of photography. This volume also includes a text by the author in which he reflects upon photographic art and explains what prompted him to make this sort of director's cut, this exceptionally personal selection, which brings together the works that, in his view, have made a contribution to the world of photography. A small-format but high-voltage volume that, page after page, makes it clear why Klein is one of the summits of contemporary photography.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. . An indispensible publication to understand the keys to art collecting. Conversations with the great art collectors, men and women from around the world that despite their different circumstances and nationalities, they are strongly united by a common spirit, the passion for art. What distinguishes these men and women is a particular way of seeing the world that they will let us discover in these exciting pages. Dani Levinas shows us useful thoughts as a result of an enormous effort and several years of work as an art collector.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. This definitive portrayal of Tina Modotti brings to life the iconic artist who throughout her life vacillated between the purity of inspired creativity and the struggle for social justice. Incorporating extensive archival material, interviews with Modotti's contemporaries and many rare photographs, this illustrated biography magnificently portrays Tina Modotti, her contemporaries and their tumultous times. Shortlisted for the prestigious Infinity Award.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. Madrid's annual PHotoEspaña 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.…

Hardback. Condizione: New. Discover DC through the eyes of six contemporary Spanish illustrators Published with Embajada de España en Washington.The Madrid-DC Drawing Two Capitals project showcases the talents of six Spanish illustrators through their views of the US capital, capturing the essence of the city through a collaborative sketchbook that serves as the basis for this publication. Chavarría, Javier; Dorao, Joaquín González; Rojo, Ana; Santolaya, Antonia; Suárez, Curro (illustratore).…

Hardback. Condizione: New. This book, co-published with the Fundación Canal in Madrid, covers three series by Fernand Léger that attest to his original pictorial language, full of shapes and colors. On the one hand, it includes his works to illustrate the foundational essay of Cubism, signed by Albert Gleizes and Jean Metzinger. On the other, the lithographs with which he illustrated Rimbaud's book Les Illuminations and, finally, more than fifty plates dedicated to the circus, a world of fun and freedom that fascinated him since he was a child. An essential volume to explore the search of a new order that was always among his obsessions.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. A scrapbook on Baillie's life and career, with stills, ephemera and writings by filmmakers across generationsThis is the first book on the West Coast avant-garde filmmaker Bruce Baillie (1931-2020), famed for the films Mass for the Dakota Sioux (1964), Castro Street (1966) and All My Life (1966) and for his influence on directors such as George Lucas (one of Lucas' charitable foundations helped fund the digital transfer of Baillie's films) and Apichatpong Weerasethakul. Alongside stills from Baillie's films, the book fosters a dialogue between Baillie and filmmakers and writers across several generations, including experimental filmmaker Peter Hutton, filmmaker and anthropologist J.P. Sniadecki and Jonas Mekas, along with suites of images by the Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul, British artist and experimental filmmaker Ben Rivers and Brazilian artist and filmmaker Ana Vaz, among others. Reproductions of correspondence and other ephemera are also included.…

Hardback. Condizione: New. Classic portraits of Spanish and Latin American icons from Borges to KahloThis hardcover volume presents more than 100 images from a unique part of German-born French photographer Gisèle Freund's (1908-2000) oeuvre: her portraits of Spanish and Latin American personalities, intellectuals, writers and artists. These photographs follow Freund's life journey, from her beginnings in Paris, through her period of exile in Argentina, her stays in Uruguay, Chile and Mexico, to her final stage back in Europe. During her time in these places, Freund took photographs of important personalities such as Julio Cortázar, Pablo Neruda, Nicolás Guillén, Octavio Paz, Alejo Carpentier, Vicente Huidobro, Jorge Luis Borges, Norah Borges, Guillermo de Torre, Eva Perón, Victoria Ocampo, Angélica Ocampo, María Rosa Oliver, Joaquín Torres García, Roberto Matta, Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, Rufino Tamayo, José Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros, among others. Alongside these portraits are her photographs of the Latin American landscape.…

Hardback. Condizione: New. Finding solace in visual art during his boot camp training, Miralda's photographs and sketches of army life served as the basis for his critically acclaimed anti-war sculpturesSpanish artist Antoni Miralda (born 1942) found in drawing and photography a refuge from his required military service, which left him feeling physically exhausted and emotionally repressed. From this hostile wasteland would emerge the seeds of works that would distinguish him within the Parisian avant-garde of the mid-1960s. Booom is a heretofore unpublished compilation of Miralda's photographs and notebook sketches, made while at boot camp, which are at the root of his antiwar sculptures-a body of work that led the artist to become internationally celebrated. It is an essential publication for gaining a deeper understanding of Miralda's remarkable ability to transform everyday elements into powerful instruments of critique and provocation. Booom, of course, does not arrive at just any moment. It comes at a time when the world is witnessing the most severe escalation of potential armed conflict since World War II.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. Joan Fontcuberta's work conveys a critic to conceiving photography as evidence of reality. He aims to question the veracity attributed to photographs, by means of image and story manipulation as well as intense interaction with viewers. Fontcuberta has carried out a diverse activity within the world of photography, as a creator, teacher, critic, curator and historian. His work has been recognized with important awards such as the Spanish National Photography Award. In 2013 he became the first Spanish photographer to win the prestigious Hasselblad Award.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. 1st. Shimabuku's itinerant, imaginative practice creates works inspired by his encounters with humans, plants and animalsSince the 1990s, Japanese artist Shimabuku (born 1969) has traveled to various places around the world, creating drawings, photographs and performances that consider the daily lives of people he encounters, as well as new forms of communication between humans and nonhumans.…

Hardback. Condizione: New. This series of touching images marks a position when looking at the world, without making a distinction between animals and humans, a starting point in which they regain their dignity and look at us as equals.These images make us reflect on the way we classify, control and dominate everything the human beings have called species. If we leave aside the species division, each one of these beings has the same right to dignity and fulfillment as the rest of the people. Each photograph in this book has a story behind it, which is narrated next to each image. The animals photographed are inhabitants of Animal Rescue Spain, Santuario Gaia, Rainfer, Santuario Vegan, Birds Friends, Granja Natura, Fundación FIEB, Grefa, Primadomus and Wild Forest Reserve, among other institutions.…

Paperback. Condizione: New.

Hardback. Condizione: New. Five Spanish photographer's visions of the political heart of North AmericaIn the project DC.ES, five Spanish photographers-Juan Baraja, Jesús Madriñán, Paula Anta, Rosell Meseguer and Nicolás Combarro-examine Washington, DC, in a project that provides evocative gazes of a city known more for what it symbolizes than what it is.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. Index Roma features critical and descriptive essays on the work of resident artists and researchers at the Royal Academy of Spain in Rome (founded in 1973). Along with work using more classical media, the assortment of artistic genres includes video and design.

Hardback. Condizione: New. One of the most complete and illustrative books on the work of the versatile Mexican artist Damián Ortega. Published on the occasion of the homonymous exhibition at the Centro Botín, Santander and curated by Vicente Todolí, it highlights Ortega's ingenuity and humor in deconstructing known objects and processes, altering their functions and transforming them into novel experiences and hypothetical situations. Texts by curator and art critic Peio Aguirre. 9 concrete poems by the writer Rafael Toriz. Conversation between the artist Damián Ortega and the curator Roberta Tenconi.…

Hardback. Condizione: New. Classic portraits of Spanish and Latin American icons from Borges to KahloThis hardcover volume presents more than 100 images from a unique part of German-born French photographer Gisèle Freund's (1908-2000) oeuvre: her portraits of Spanish and Latin American personalities, intellectuals, writers and artists. These photographs follow Freund's life journey, from her beginnings in Paris, through her period of exile in Argentina, her stays in Uruguay, Chile and Mexico, to her final stage back in Europe. During her time in these places, Freund took photographs of important personalities such as Julio Cortázar, Pablo Neruda, Nicolás Guillén, Octavio Paz, Alejo Carpentier, Vicente Huidobro, Jorge Luis Borges, Norah Borges, Guillermo de Torre, Eva Perón, Victoria Ocampo, Angélica Ocampo, María Rosa Oliver, Joaquín Torres García, Roberto Matta, Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, Rufino Tamayo, José Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros, among others. Alongside these portraits are her photographs of the Latin American landscape.…

Hardback. Condizione: New. One of the most complete and illustrative books on the work of the versatile Mexican artist Damián Ortega. Published on the occasion of the homonymous exhibition at the Centro Botín, Santander and curated by Vicente Todolí, it highlights Ortega's ingenuity and humor in deconstructing known objects and processes, altering their functions and transforming them into novel experiences and hypothetical situations. Texts by curator and art critic Peio Aguirre. 9 concrete poems by the writer Rafael Toriz. Conversation between the artist Damián Ortega and the curator Roberta Tenconi.…

Hardback. Condizione: New. Pérez's visual storytelling follows an invisible thread guided by color temperature, opening and closing like a theatrical curtain from red to black Following a chromatic chronology, this sequence of images by Spanish self-taught photographer Víctor M. Pérez opens and closes like a theatrical curtain, from red to black. His high-contrast, enigmatic scenes are filled with mystery, a subtle unease and a sense of tension.…

Hardback. Condizione: New. Hussain Aga Khan takes nature lovers on an awe-inspiring journey through the ocean's extraordinary ecosystemsThrough his stunning underwater photography, Hussain Aga Khan (born 1974) captures intimate moments of marine life, from vibrant coral reefs and elusive nudibranchs to majestic sea turtles and powerful whales. His firsthand accounts bring each encounter to life, blending scientific insights with personal reflections on these habitats' fragile beauty and the importance of conserving these ecosystems. Marine Encounters is an inspiring and revealing journey through oceans around the world, sharing enchanting encounters with animals and sea life. It represents a collaboration between Geneva's MSC Foundation and Hussain Aga Khan's charity Focused on Nature, highlighting a shared vision to safeguard marine biodiversity for future generations.…

Hardback. Condizione: New.