PATIENTIA

This title offers monographs on the most important Spanish, African and Latin American photographers. "The PhotoBolsillo" series is dedicated to publishing monographs on the most notable Spanish, African, and Latin American photographers of the recent past. Each small-format paperback features full-page, full-colour and black-and-white photographs representing the best of the artist's portfolio - each of which is captioned with title and year. Additionally there is a Chronology, plus lists of exhibitions and collections in which the photographer's work has been/is displayed, plus a brief...

Twenty-seven countries under the gaze of Jordi Bernado, a photographer who collects the places and landscapes he has lived: some comical, some excessive, some implausible. This vision speaks of a world where life continues to alter each and every element that would initially appear well-ordered. The author's course carries us far and wide, making us his travelling companions, indeed his accomplices in the highly personal vision he constructs. Bernado comes across successively as euridte, historian, architect, sociologist, but most often as storyteller. With a perfect mastery of colour ranges, ...

Complicado entender la vida de uno sin el otro. El Real Madrid abrió sus ojos al mundo de los vivos en 1902, el Atlético, en 1903. Un año no es nada cuando se habla de un siglo de historia y pasión. Se puede y debe decir que desde entonces viven de la mano. Cerca pero lo suficientemente lejos para mantener las distancias. Cada uno, con sus vicisitudes, sus momentos de gloria y sus momentos de pena. Cada uno fiel a una idiosincrasia que ha ido forjando a su manera, sin mirar mucho al de enfrente, pero sin perderle nunca de vista.

With Torero, Ruven Afanador juxtaposes the incredible beauty of young bullfighters and old-world Latin traditions with a couture-inspired vision of the opulent costumes and the ritualistic elements of the matador culture, and narcissism, an integral aspect of fashion photography. Afanador opens the door to the famously closed society of bullfighters, offering his elegant, private view of the young matadors raised in a centuries-old Latin tradition, capturing their balletic beauty, and their distinctly erotic aura. Through these iconic portraits, Afanador also gorgeously documents the...