Comunicación visual

Madrid ayer y hoy propone una forma visual de acercarse a la historia de nuestra ciudad, a todos esos cambios que se producen día a día en su fisonomía. Mostrando una fotografía antigua y una actual, nos invita a la comparación evocando esas calles, monumentos y plazas tal como se presentaban en el pasado y su apariencia actual. Fotografías Modernas: Álvaro Benítez. Textos: Reyes García y Ana María Écija.

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...

La Mirada (the gaze) presents nine outside their country almost unknown Latin American artist-photographers. The works of the last 20 years range from straight photography to the staged image. This title describes not only gaze of the camera directed towards a specific subject, but also the artistic attitude and mental approach of the nine artists and their diverse views on photography.

La actual publicación recoge los textos seleccionados del VIII Encuentro en Castilla-La Mancha, dedicado a fotografía y turismo. Están distribuidos en las siguientes secciones: turismo, documentación fotográfica y fotógrafos.