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Viajamos con Isabel Aranda, su música insinúa la dulzura de la vida, y nos ayuda a percibir una armonía universal: un conmovedor sentimiento de humanidad. Cada imagen de esta muestra adquiere una significación autónoma, pero al mismo tiempo contribuye a una textura común, a una especie de magma que impregna todo, se relacionan unas con otras mediante redes invisibles, conexiones profundas de la mirada. Asimismo, las diferentes series y parejas establecen un sugerente discurso entre ellas sobre la presencia humana, originando una coherencia, un entramado que aquilata el sentido de la imagen y del conjunto. Pocas veces una exposición fotográfica tiende estos cables de manera que quedemos tan subyugados en sus circuitos. Cuentan que en el norte existe un gigantesco bosque de árboles frondosos y que ese bosque es el mayor organismo vivo del planeta, porque las raíces se comunican todas bajo tierra.

Nos encontramos ante uno de esos maravillosos libros-objeto que valen mucho más de lo que cuestan. Y es que el gran fotógrafo Rainer W. Schlegelmich no ha podido resistir la tentación de editar su segundo libro sobre Porsche y su historia. Pero no se trata solo de un libro de grandes y fantasticas fotos (que tambien), sino que la obra narra, en la primera parte, la historia a fondo de la marca, desde los inicios hasta hoy mismo, ademas de la vertiente deportiva. La segunda parte - el grueso del libro - analiza año por año, hasta 2006, todos los modelos producidos, con impresionates fotos a tamaño gigante y con la calidad acostumbrada. El libro termina con un interesantisimo cuadro de caracteristicas de cada uno de los modelos fabricados y su correspondiente ilustracion de perfil.

Un recorrido memorístico, entrañable y nostálgico de cómo han sido y evolucionado nuestras boticas y sus gentes y la vida que subyace en ellas.

Harley-Davidson motorcycles are true American icons, representing a brand of human expression unrivaled by just about any other vehicle. This impressive, compact volume describes in detail the developmental history and technical specifications of every Harley-Davidson production model from 1918 to present, as well as several custom creations. The book is generously illustrated with fantastic color photography capturing the spirit embodied by the motorcycles.

David Goldblatt, Eugene Richards, Christian Boltanski, Anders Petersen, Cindy Sherman, Malick Sidibé, o Sophie Calle son sólo algunos de los 23 fotógrafos que componen una generación que cambió la manera en la que el arte se relaciono con la fotografia. En esta obra se muestran algunos de sus trabajos mas representativos de la epoca. El libro esta prologado por Sergio Mah, comisario general del PHotoEspaña, y por el comisario y ex director de la Photographer's Gallery de Londres, Paul Wombell. Los ensayos de Susan Sontag y Roland Barthes, del fotografo Allan Sekula, del critico de arte John Berger y del artista conceptual Victor Burgin completan el libro. La exposicion que podra verse en el Teatro Fernan Gomez de Madrid en el marco de PHotoEspaña 2009 pretende trazar una mirada retrospectiva sobre un conjunto de obras y autores que contribuyeron a definir esta decada como uno de los periodos mas importantes y fructiferos de la historia reciente de la fotografia. Fotografos presentes en la obra: David Goldblatt, Eugene Richards, Victor Kollar, Alberto Garcia-Alix, Anders Petersen, William Eggleston, Malick Sidibe, Carlos Pazos, Karen Knorr, Cindy Sherman, Allan Sekula, Fina Miralles, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Christian Boltanski, Ana Mendieta, Okhai Ojeikere, Claudia Andujar, Ed van der Elsken, Laurie Anderson, Kohei Yoshiyuki, Sophie Calle, Victor Burgin y Gabriele y Helmut Northhelfer.

Since those early nineteenth-century travellers were traveling looking for the exotic scents of the south and portraying small Andalusian gypsy communities to sophisticated contemporaryf ashion photographers, the seduction of the world of song, dance and flamenco music arouses great curiosity the camera. In some cases, the relationship has been almost accidental, in others a deep study of its idiosyncrasies.During the Franco dictatorship, many times one could read in the popular bars indicating "No singing." This edition features 170 photographs from 70 international authors. Includes both the great masters of the genre and those who occasionally have travelled the world capturing eloquent images of flamenco. From Laurent Pierre Bonnard to the history of photography realizes the aesthetic evolution, anthropological, economic and social development of flamenco.

The photographic collection of the Museum Ludwig Cologne is one of the most important collections of contemporary photography in the world. This book provides a fascinating insight into its rich diversity: conceptual art, abstraction, reportage - about 200 works works by around 100 of the 20th century's most famous international photographers, from Ansel to Joel Peter Witkin.

A reprieve from post-war austerity, the 1950s epitomized a time of glamour with its film icons and automobiles, which are admired and emulated to this day. Nothing said, "You''ve made it," quite like getting glammed up and going for a spin in your brand new automobile. The shapes and shades of cars were bright and exaggerated. Car design showed a fervent embrace of the future and a willingness to experiment with something new. Riviera Cocktail photographer Edward Quinn captured all the stars and idols from the worlds of film, music, and the arts, as well as their admirers. Picasso and his Hispano-Suiza, Brigitte Bardot in her Lancia, and many more are featured with their motor toys. With a keen eye and playful exuberance, his images define fifties style.

In January 1886, Karl Benz patented his motorwage, the worlds first practical automobile. From Germany, the motor car spread around Europe and, in the early 1890s, to America. This book offers an original view of the first 75 years of the motor car, with hundreds of wonderful photographs, taken exclusively from Getty Images. 352 pages, 400 b&w pictures. Text: English/French/German

Over the course of his career, Jock Sturges'' long-term engagement with his subjects has been a cornerstone of his work. Misty Dawn, one of his primary and most popular muses, is one such subject; he has photographed her for 25 of her 28 years. Lithe, beautiful, classically proportioned, she is the personification of Sturges'' philosophy of being at home in one''s body. This volume follows her growth from a shy, tomboyish child to a gorgeous, confident young woman. Taken as a whole, this series of images presents a unique, fully realized portrait of a blossoming individual and explores a rare and beautiful relationship between photographer and subject. "Misty Dawn: Portrait of a Muse" presents iconic images as well as previously unpublished material, mined from Sturges'' older contact sheets and newest work. Jock Sturges, born in New York in 1947, received a B.A. in perceptual psychology and photography from Marlboro College in Vermont in 1974 and an M.F.A. from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1985. He has exhibited internationally, and his photographs are in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris. His previous Aperture books include "Notes, The Last Day of Summer" and "Radiant Identities,"