Sin Retoques

A look at the work of sixteen postwar Mexican photographers--including Tina Modetti, Flor Gardegno, and Eugenia Vargas--shows how the photographers explore traditional themes in Mexican culture with innovative styles.

Nadar, whose real name was Felix Tournachon (1820-1910), was a conspicuous, even astonishing presence in nineteenth-century France. Engaging and quick-witted, he invented himself over and over as a bohemian writer, a journalist, a romantic utopian, a caricaturist, a portrait photographer, a balloonist, an entrepreneur, a prophet of aeronautics. The name "Nadar" was on everyone's lips. Today, it is Nadar's photography that is remembered. His sitters, who were often his friends, included the great men and women of his time: Dumas, Rossini, Baudelaire, Sarah Bernhardt, Daumier, Berlioz, George...

This excellent introduction to photography explores how photographers transform everyday things into meaningful moments. It includes examples of work by masters like William Eggleston, Mary Ellen Mark, Helen Levitt, and Walker Evans, and encourages close observation of photographs and the world around us.

Esta Segunda Parte (y II) del mismo título –EL RINCÓN DE ADEMUZ EN IMÁGENES: ALDEAS Y LUGARES (2015)-, constituye una aproximación al conocimiento patrimonial –paisajístico, cultural...- de las aldeas del término de Castielfabib: Arroyo Cerezo, Mas de Jacinto, Mas de los Mudos, Cuesta del Rato y Los Santos, y de sus lugares: Colladillo de Abajo y de Arriba, Corrales del Hontanar, Corrales de la Nava, Molino del Barranco Hondo y ambas Tóvedas, de Abajo y Arriba; así como de la aldea de Torrebaja: Torrealta, y ambos molinos, de Abajo y de Arriba; y de Negrón, aldea de Vallanca....