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Tiempos de Retiro es un recorrido histórico por los principales acontecimientos y sus protagonistas que determinaron la evolución de las tierras que actualmente constituyen el Distrito madrileño de Retiro. El libro pretende recoger, de forma amena y de fácil lectura, los sucesos que fueron determinando el carácter de este territorio donde dejaron su impronta actores como Velázquez, los Reyes Católicos, Ramón y Cajal, Carlos III o Napoleón. Un escenario que fue testigo de los actos más solemnes y lugar lúdico de encuentro para toda la Villa y Corte y que hoy sirve de lugar de residencia de muchos vecinos que conviven en su quehacer diario, con la llegada de visitantes de todas las partes del mundo atraídos por los tesoros acumulados en sus museos o para pasear por el centenario Parque de Madrid.

The life of pioneering photographer Barbara Ker Seymer Thoroughly entertaining Knights expertly evokes this hedonistic period The Times A picturesque portrayal of a world that sounds as thoroughly maniacal as it was modern Daily Telegraph I just called myself Ker Seymer Photographs Barbara said I didn t think it was necessary to have your sex displayed on the photographs Vivacious sassy out to have fun Ker Seymer was committed to independence One of a handful of outstanding British photographers of her generation Ker Seymer s work defined a talented forward looking network of artists dancers writers actors and musicians all of whom flocked to her Bond Street studio Among her sitters were Evelyn Waugh Margot Fonteyn Cyril Connolly Jean Cocteau and Vita Sackville West Barbara Ker Seymer 1905 1993 disdained lucrative society portraits in favour of unfussy modern images Her work was widely admired by her peers among them Man Ray and Jean Cocteau Her images as a gossip column photojournalist for Harper s Bazaar were the go to representations of the aristocracy and Bright Young Things at play Yet as both a studio portraitist and a photojournalist she broke with convention Equally unconventional in her personal life Ke

At the heart of the great Magnum photographer Robert Capa''s life''s work are his photojournalistic images of war. This collection examines in detail six of the most important moments he covered as a young man: the falling soldier (a single image from the Spanish Civil War made in 1936), Chinese resistance to the Japanese invasion (1938), the end of the Spanish Civil War in Catalonia (November 1938-January 1939), D-Day (1944), the U.S. paratroop invasion of Germany (March, 1945), and the liberation of Leipzig (April, 1945). In connection with the last of those stories, "This Is War" considers why Capa (1913-1954) did not photograph the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps. One chapter is devoted to each piece of reportage, with extensive historical and biographical text from Richard Whelan, Capa''s biographer, and a major essay from Whelan about Capa and the rise of the picture press in Europe and America. Each section is copiously illustrated with largely unseen original materials including vintage prints, contact sheets, caption sheets, letters and magazine layouts, and full of revelations not just about Capa, but about the changing ways his images were reaching ever larger audiences.