Madrid: Portrait of a City

A photographic celebration of the great Spanish city, from Alfonso to Thomas Struth

This volume features more than 150 photographs by some of the greatest names in photography, both Spanish and international, together with an exhaustive essay by the writer Antonio Munoz Molina on Madrid's illustrious history as a subject for photography. It includes the brilliant photographs of Alfonso, perhaps the greatest graphic chronicler of Madrid at the beginning of the 20th century; the prewar and wartime images of Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Capa and Gerda Taro; the postwar portraits of William Klein, Francesc Catala-Roca and Ramon Masats, among others; the post-Franco developing society immortalized by photographers from Spain and elsewhere such as Gianni Ferrari; the mythical images of the Movida in Madrid by Alberto Garcia-Alix; and the cultural and economic environment of the 21st century through the eyes of Cristina Garcia Rodero and Thomas Struth.