Madrid

With more than 150 spectacular images, this book shows an exceptional graphic portrait of the city of Madrid from the beginning of the 20th century to the present day, by the great names of photography, to which is added a documented essay by way of prologue by the writer Antonio Muñoz Molina . In his words, “Beauty, in a city like Madrid, is in what happens in the blink of an eye, in the inflection of a look or a gesture, in a compositional harmony that has only come into being because it captures it. a photographer, but who would otherwise disappear without a trace. In Madrid there is almost no landscape other than the human landscape, which is the privileged territory of photography ”.

The pages of this book show the great photographs of Alfonso , perhaps the greatest graphic chronicler of Madrid at the beginning of the 20th century; the pre-war and war images of Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Capa and Gerda Taro ; the postwar portrait of William Klein, Francesc Català-Roca, Ramón Masats, Inge Morath or Cas Oorthyus ; the incipient development society immortalized by photographers from here and abroad such as Gianni Ferrari, Ferdinando Scianna or Joana Biarnés ; the mythical images of the Madrid Movida by Alberto García-Alix, Miguel Trillo, Ouka Leele or Pablo Pérez Mínguez ; and the cultural, social and economic environment of the 21st century from the point of view ofCristina García Rodero, Alex Webb or Thomas Struth.