Madrid / prólogo/prologue, Antonio Muñoz Molina ; coordinación y edición gráfica/coordinator and photo editor, Miriam Querol.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Muñoz Molina, Antonio, writer of introduction.

Querol, Miriam, editor.

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Photography, Artistic.

Manners and customs.

Madrid (Spain)--Social life and customs--20th century--Pictorial works.

Madrid (Spain).

Madrid (Spain)--Pictorial works.

Spain--Madrid.

Genre:

Photobooks.

Pictorial works.

Physical Description:

274 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm

Edition:

Segunda edición/Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Madrid : La Fábrica, 2021.

Language Note:

Parallel text in Spanish and English.

Summary:

"En Madrid casi no hay más paisaje que el paisaje humano, que es el territorio privilegiado de la fotografía. Este libro es una prueba de ello. Una ciudad es un espectáculo demasiado plural para que pueda contarlo una sola voz, retratarlo una sola mirada. La polifonía y la cacofonía de la ciudad exige de manera natural lo colectivo, lo azaroso, el collage. El poliedro de caras infinitas tan cualificada como la de Cartier-Bresson, William Klein, Alfonso, Ramón Masats, Gabriel Cualladó, Alberto García-Alix, Cas Oorthuys o Català-Roca"--Jacket flap.

"In Madrid, there is virtually no landscape but the human landscape, which is the privileged domain of photography. In a city as visually forceful, the subject overpowers the personal sensibility or attitude of the individual who photographs it. The proof lies in this book. A city is too plural a sight to be narrated by one voice, portrayed by a single gaze. The polyphony and cacophony of the city naturally calls for collectivity, haphazardness, collage. The countless faces of a polyhedral city like Madrid cannot fit in the viewfinder of just one camera, even one as skilled as that of Cartier-Bresson, William Klein, Alfonso, Ramón Masats, Gabriel Cualladó, Alberto García-Alix, Cas Oorthuys or Català-Roca"--Jacket flap.

This book of more than 150 photographs shows an exceptional portrait of Madrid from the beginning of the 19th century to the present, together with a prologue signed by the writer Antonio Munoz Molina. Its pages show the great photographs of Alfonso, perhaps the greatest graphic chronicler of Madrid at the beginning of the 20th century; the prewar and war images of Henri Cartier- Bresson, Robert Capa and Gerda Taro; the postwar portrait of William Klein, Francesc Catala-Roca, Ramon Masats, Inge Morath or Cas Oorthyus; the incipient development society that photographers like Gianni Ferrari, Ferdinando Scianna or Joana Biarnes immortalized; the Madrid Movement of Alberto Garcia- Alix, Miguel Trillo, Ouka Leele or Pablo Perez Minguez; and the cultural, social and economic environment of the 21st century from the perspective of Cristina Garcia Rodero, Alex Webb or Thomas Struth. A tour of the historical, architectural, cultural, sporting events... that have marked daily life, the urban landscape and the unique character of the capital.

Contents:

Novela visible de Madrid ; Visible novel of Madrid / Antonio Muñoz Molina

1900-1930: El sueño de la modernidad ; The dream of modernity

1931-1939: Madrid era una fiesta ; Madrid was a moveable feast

1940-1960: Luces ye sombras ; Light and shadow

1961-1976: El final del latargo ; The end of slumber

1977-1991: El futuro ya está aqui ; The future is now

1992-2020: De villa a metrópoli ; From town to metropolis.

Notes:

Statements of responsibility taken from colophon.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9788417769932

8417769935

OCLC:

1289986718

Publisher Number:

99993426889