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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.

El fotógrafo madrileño José Ramón Bas es la nueva incorporación al catálogo de PHotoBolsillo de este mes de abril. Bas es un fotógrafo viajero que se nutre de sus encuentros, de África a Egipto, de Cuba a Brasil. Un fotografo innovador que emplea tecnicas novedosas en imagenes que a menudo desbordan su propio marco, instantaneas que no temen estar borrosas, marcadas con textos o dibujos. La obra de Bas conserva siempre la inventiva y la imaginacion propios de un niño, un viajero y un poeta.

Danny Lyon: Memories of Myself A collection of beautiful photo-essays from over 40 years of the remarkable career of Danny Lyon (b. 1942), one of the most original and influential American photographers Lyon pioneered the style of photographic 'New Journalism' when he rebelled against Life-magazine-style photographs, and instead immersed himself in the lives of his subjects and paving the way for a future generation of photographers The work collected here, much of it considered too controversial for publication at the time of its creation, ranges from sensual, richly coloured images of Colombian brothels and black-and-white portraits of boys in 1965 Chicago, to some of his best-known projects such as The Bikeriders story and recent work made in Cuba Each story is published as a complete piece for the first time and is accompanied by Lyon's own text. Also includes a rare interview with curator, Hugh Edwards

El diálogo nos permite descubrir aquello que nos hace similares, pero tambien lo que nos hace distintos. Es el reto supremo de nuestra capacidad de aceptar, donde la tensión y las contradicciones, los acuerdos y las diferencias, se resuelven en una doble mirada, en una busqueda comun", comienza diciendo la escritora Sandra Lorenzano en su introduccion a Photographic Correspondences (Correspondencias fotograficas), que presenta una descarga de imagenes intercambiadas por correo electronico entre Marcelo Brodsky, afincado en Buenos Aires, y Pablo Ortiz Monasterio, en la Ciudad de Mexico. En el transcurso del proyecto, cada fotografo respondio a la ultima imagen del otro de manera poetica, juguetona e intuitiva, combinando el azar de un ready-made con la complejidad de la memoria fotografica. El audaz diseño de este libro refleja el proceso de los artistas: los pliegos incluyen una imagen hecha por cada artista, repitiendo la ultima imagen de la pagina anterior en la primera pagina del siguiente pliego. El ver dos veces cada imagen produce una sensacion extraña y sugerente, repitiendo el metodo instantaneo seguido por los fotografos y propiciando que el espectador haga conexiones inconscientes.

In the 20th century, when pornography made its debut in the film world with its aura of improvisation and amateurishness, it had a caustic challenging quality, a freshness and a natural authenticity. By becoming industrialized and codified, it then let itself be confined in the twofold ghetto of distribution and its related rituals, churning out a pantomime of crude, unexciting, formatted images. Eroticism has always had "better press," especially since it has often been "involved" with literature and great authors have laid sacrifices on its altar. However, limited by censorship, above all self-censorship, to a restrictive representation of sex, it sentenced itself to insipidness and self-mutilation, believing it could find a way out in vain, repetitive sophistication, paradoxically proving, much to the satisfaction of moralists, that since monotony is always born out of uniformity, prefabricated pornography and eroticism have become, and remain boring.

At the turn of the century, the American photographer Edward Sheriff Curtis (18681952) started on his 30-year project to produce a monumental study of North American Indians. Using an approach that was both artistically and scientifically ambitious he recorded, in words and pictures, the traces of the traditional Indian way of life that was already beginning to die out. The most important images of Curtis' work have been included in this compact homage to the great photographer.

5 Masters of Photography Eugene Atget, Matthew Brady, Lisette Model, Daido Moriyama, Jacob Riis New collection of pocket-sized photography books. Paperback Each slipcase contains 5 titles 156 x 136 mm 6 1/8 x 5 3/8 in 128 pp 56 b&w photographs

Zaj. Colección Archivo Conz recoge, a través de documentos gráficos, gran parte de las actividades del grupo de vanguardia artística español Zaj, fundado en 1964 por los compositores Juan Hidalgo, Ramon Barce y Walter Marchetti a los que se unieron con posterioridad nombres como los de Jose Luis Fernandez Castillejo o Esther Ferrer, artistas pioneros en nuestro pais con sus actividades en torno a la denominada musica de accion, iniciando una via en la que paulatinamente los instrumentos musicales van perdiendo su funcion unica de productores de sonidos y van ganando en cambio otras atribuciones. Todos ellos supieron romper moldes en un tiempo en el que, en nuestro pais, la innovacion artistica era poco menos que una utopia, y han seguido trabajando durante treinta años sin agotar sus recursos rupturistas. El catalogo se completa con textos de Ruben Figaredo y Eduardo Navarro acerca del movimiento Zaj y de sus fundadores y miembros, incluyendo a su protector y complice: el coleccionista italiano Francesco Conz.

Thomas Casademunt (Barcelona, 1967) is a photographer that is forged over two decades as a photojournalist. In constant search has made remarkable series of photos inwhich the death on the altar occupies a privileged place. The album recorded those family altars Day of the Dead that are not yet contaminated by the phenomenon of interest in the party. In these photographs, the presence of death is not as obvious as a sugar skull, Casademunt captures intimate atmosphere where you can appreciate the aesthetic enjoyment of the family and collecting the mourning and even the "presence" of the soul;records the family altars which were built to be seen only by the family and the spirit of the dead, just for the enjoyment of them.Plasma frames your images in front, the frame does not pursuespectacular, not interested in being role. As an ethnologist, leaves a photographic testimony without adding anything. After seven years of research on populations ofthe states of Morelos, Michoacan, Oaxaca, Yucatan, Tlaxcala, Puebla and Guerrero, the result is a beautiful photo.

Carlos Saura retrata a su hermano Antonio.No cabe ninguna duda de que Carlos Saura es uno de los más grandes directores de cine españoles, y su hermano Antonio Saura, fallecido en 1998, uno de los mayores artistas plasticos. A lo largo del tiempo Carlos Saura ha seguido con su camara la trayectoria de su familia y, en concreto, de su hermano Antonio. Este libro recoge fotografias de toda una vida de ambos. Imagenes de gran emotividad y calidez que retratan a una de las familias mas fecundas del panorama artistico español.

Este extraordinario libro, con sus espectaculares instantáneas, nos presenta la multiplicidad de estructuras y manifestaciones de nuestra naturaleza. En cada uno de los 4 capítulos principales Tierr

La exposición está compuesta de un centenar de extraordinarias fotografías realizadas en gelatina de plata, que proceden de los fondos de la que sin duda es la principal colección particular de obras del fotografo y documenta ampliamente todas las etapas de la trayectoria de Evans.

Libro de gran formato y cuidada edición que reúne por primera vez y en su totalidad las principales series fotográficas realizadas hasta el momento por Bleda y Rosa: Campos de fútbol, Campos de batalla, Ciudades, Origen, y los cuatro trabajos que componen Arquitecturas. Este volumen es la primera publicacion retrospectiva sobre la obra de los ganadores del Premio Nacional de Fotografia 2008.

Re-shaping the conventions of fashion photography, Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin subvert the status quo to explosive effect. Bringing an underground perspective to exclusive brands and top-shelf celebrities, this provocative duo delight and vex in equal measure. Sometimes startling but always stylish, both their fine art and commercial work challenge the outer limits of digital wizardry. In 2006 van Lamsweerde and Matadin were invited to design the iconic Pirelli calendaraan assignment they undertook with characteristic verve. To dub their work unpredictable would be mere understatementa] This photographic Dutch adream teama has trail-blazed for the likes of Vogue, Harperas Bazaar and The New York Times Magazine. An extensive advertising clientele includes Yves Saint Laurent, Stella McCartney and Jean-Paul Gaultier.

Tomás Casademunt (Barcelona, 1967) es un fotógrafo que se forja durante dos decadas como reportero gráfico. En búsqueda permanente ha realizado notables series fotográficas, dentro de las cuales La muerte en el altar ocupa un lugar privilegiado. El album registra aquellos altares familiares del dia de Muertos que todavia no estan contaminados por el fenomeno turistico de la fiesta. En estas fotografias, la presencia de la muerte no es tan evidente como una calavera de azucar, Casademunt capta atmosferas intimas donde se aprecia el goce estetico de la familia y se percibe el luto e incluso la Opresencia" del anima; registra los altares familiares que se construyeron para ser vistos solo por la familia y el espiritu del muerto, solo por el goce de hacerlos. Plasma sus imagenes en encuadres frontales: no persigue el encuadre espectacular, no le interesa ser protagonico. Como un etnologo, deja un testimonio fotografico sin agregar nada. Tras siete años de pesquisas en poblaciones de los estados de Morelos, Michoacan, Oaxaca, Yucatan, Tlaxcala, Puebla y Guerrero, el resultado es un conjunto fotografico de gran belleza.

Marta KuzmaUkrainian photographer Sergey Bratkov is internationally acclaimed for his powerful images of contemporary Russia and expressive portraits. But despite his many global exhibitions, his work has rarely been published. Sergey Bratkov remedies this lacuna with a survey of his influential photographic oeuvre. Raised and educated in the Soviet Union, Bratkov has spent his career training his penetrating camera gaze on the fractured lives and bleak structures that pervade the region. Some of the images presented here are unsparing documents of daily life following the collapse of the Soviet Union. Poverty, prostitution, and homelessness are only a few of the issues he tackles through his striking photos. In his expressive portraits, he strips away the ideological cliches of the communist yearsand subsequent bland slogans of hope for Eastern European capitalismto reveal the complex reality. Featured essays by art scholars draw out the social and artistic criticism embedded in Bratkovs work, while not denying the powerful lyricism of his images. The catalog to accompany the upcoming exhibition at the Fotomuseum Winterthur, Sergey Bratkov will be essential for art scholars and historians alike.