Comunicación visual

Postales íntimas de los placeres más transgresores Concebido como un mosaico de episodios, vivencias, costumbres y personas, «La Barcelona erótica» se adentra, con más de 200 fotografías históricas, en las mil intimitades de unos años donde la ciudad cosmopolita iba escribiendo los capítulos para nuevas fantasías: desde el primer «topless» a las tiendas de condones, desde el barrio Chino a los «meublés» más frecuentados o desde los «sex-shops» a los espectáculos del mítico Bagdad. Postales teñidas de placer y deseo, en una Barcelona entre pagana y puritana, pero que no...

Exploring the lifestyle of a lesser-known indigenous tribe, this photographic journey captures the daily lives of the Wayuu fishermen who live in northwestern Venezuela and northeastern Colombia on the Guajira Peninsula and are known as the Apalaanchi—“people of the beach.” Showing a group of people struggling to survive, the stunning images in this collection illustrate the culture of the Wayuu fishermen, detailing their traditions, views on mysticism, and their relationship with the sea that gives them a livelihood. From the innocent smiles of young children and the peacefulness and...

Las obras presentadas desarrollan una síntesis de mecanismos y técnicas propias de la renovación de los lenguajes del siglo XX, principalmente la apropiación fotográfica, el collage y el trazo informalista, en un afán de celebrar el arte y criticar la sociedad que nos rodea.

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...