Lanzarote - A janela de Saramago

Cipriano Algor, an ageing potter, lives with his daughter and her husband in the shadow of the Centre, a nebulous, constantly expanding conglomerate that provides his livelihood - until it decrees that it is no longer interested in his humble wares. Together with his daughter, they craft a new line of small ceramic figurines and, to their bafflement, the Centre orders vast quantities. But once the figures are complete, the Centre recants: there is no market for them. Resigned to idleness Cipriano moves into the soulless megaplex, until late one night he comes across a horrifying secret in the bowels of the artificial city. The Cave is a harrowing, joyful masterpiece: an Orwellian nightmare, a family fable and an uplifting love story.

Watching a rented video, Tertuliano Maximo Afonso is shocked to notice that one of the actors is identical to him in every physical detail. He embarks on a secret quest to find his double and sets in motion a train of events that he cannot control. Saramago´s novel explores the nature of individuality and examines the fear and insecurity that arise when our singularity comes under threat, when even a wife cannot tell the original from the imposter...

Despite the heavy rain, the presiding officer at Polling Station 14 finds it odd that by midday on National Election day, only a handful of voters have turned out. Puzzlement swiftly escalates to shock when eventually, after an extension, the final count reveals seventy per cent of the votes are blank - not spoiled, simply blank. National law decrees the election should be repeated eight days later. The result is worse; eighty-three per cent of the votes are blank. The incumbent government receives eight per cent and the opposition even less. The authorities, seized with panic, decamp from the capital and place it under a state of emergency. In his new novel, Jose Saramago has deftly created the politician´s ultimate nightmare: disillusionment not with one party, but with all, thereby rendering the entire democratic system useless. Seeing explores how simply this could be achieved and how devastating the results might be.

In an unnamed country on the first day of the new year, people stop dying. Amid the general public, there is great celebration: flags are hung out on balconies and people dance in the streets. They have achieved the great goal of humanity - eternal life. Death is on strike. Soon, though, the residents begin to suffer. For several months undertakers face bankruptcy, the church is forced to reinvent its doctrine, and local 'maphia' smuggle those on the brink of death over the border where they can expire naturally. Death does return eventually, but with a new, courteous approach - delivering violet warning letters to her victims. But what can death do when a letter is unexpectedly returned?

"Essential... A novel that resounds with relevance for our own time." - New York Times Book ReviewFirst published in 1980, the City of Lisbon Prize - winning Raised from the Ground follows the changing fortunes of the Mau Tempo family - poor landless peasants not unlike Saramago´s own grandparents. Set in Alentejo, a southern province of Portugal known for its vast agricultural estates, the novel charts the lives of the Mau Tempos as national and international events rumble on in the background - the coming of the republic in Portugual, the two world wars, and an attempt on the dictator Salazar´s life. Yet nothing really impinges on the grim reality of the farm laborers´ lives until the first communist stirrings.Raised from the Ground is Saramago´s most deeply personal novel, the book in which he found the signature style and voice that distinguishes all of his brilliant works.

Solomon the elephant´s life is about to be upturned. For two years he has been in Lisbon, brought from the Portuguese colonies in India. Now King Dom Joao III wishes to make him a wedding gift for the Hapsburg archduke, Maximilian. It´s a nice idea, since it avoids the Portuguese king offending his Lutheran cousin with an overtly Catholic present. But it means the poor pachyderm must travel from Lisbon to Vienna on foot - the only option when transporting a large animal such a long way. So begins a journey that will take the stalwart Solomon across the dusty plains of Castile, over the sea to Genoa and up to northern Italy where, like Hannibal´s elephants before him, he must cross the snowy Alps. Accompanying him is his quiet keeper, Subhro, who watches while - at every place they stop - people try to turn Solomon into something he is not. From worker of holy miracles to umbrella stand, the unassuming elephant suffers the many attempts of humans to impose meaning on what they don´t understand. Saramago´s latest novel is an enchanting mix of fact (an Indian elephant really did make this journey in 1551), fable and fantasy. Filled with wonderful landscapes and local colour, peppered with witty reflection on human failings and achievements, it is, in the end, about the journey of life itself.

Two decades after Portuguese novelist and Nobel Laureate Jose Saramago shocked the religious world with his novel "The Gospel According to Jesus Christ", he has done it again with "Cain", a satire of the Old Testament. Written in the last years of Saramago´s life, it tackles many of the moral and logical non sequiturs created by a wilful, authoritarian God, and forms part of Saramago´s long argument with religion. The stories in this book are witty and provocative. After Adam and Eve have been cast out of Eden, Eve decides to go back and ask the angel guarding the gate if he can give her some of the fruit that is going to waste inside. The angel agrees, and although Eve swears to Adam that she offered the angel nothing in return, their first child is suspiciously blond and fair-skinned. Cain, in his wandering, overhears a strange conversation between a man named Abraham and his son Isaac - and manages to prevent the father from murdering the son. The angel appointed by God to prevent the murder arrives late due to a wing malfunction. Cain brushes off his apology. 'What would have happened if I hadn´t been here?' Cain asks, 'and what kind of god would ask a father to sacrifice his own son?' Saramago died in June 2010, shortly after the controversial Portuguese publication of Cain but before he could participate in its publication in other countries. Harvill Secker´s edition of this remarkable book will be part of a tribute to Saramago´s life and work which includes the gradual reissue of his previous novels as Vintage Classics.

A driver waiting at the traffic lights goes blind. An opthamologist tries to diagnose his distinctive white blindness, but is affected before he can read the textbooks. It becomes a contagion, spreading throughout the city. Trying to stem the epidemic, the authorities herd the afflicted into a mental asylum where the wards are terrorized by blind thugs. And when fire destroys the asylum, the inmates burst forth and the last links with a supposedly civilized society are snapped. No food, no water, no government, no obligation, no order. This is not anarchy, this is blindness.

The world´s threats are universal like the sun but Ricardo Reis takes shelter under his own shadow. Back in Lisbon after sixteen years practicing medicine in Brazil, Ricardo Reis wanders the rain-sodden streets. He longs for the unattainably aristocratic Marcenda, but it is Lydia, the hotel chamber maid who makes and shares his bed. His old friend, the poet Fernando Pessoa, returns to see him, still wearing the suit he was buried in six weeks earlier. It is 1936, the clouds of Fascism are gathering ominously above them, so they talk; a wonderful, rambling discourse on art, truth, poetry, philosophy, destiny and love.

This book is a retelling of the Gospel following the life of Christ from his conception to his crucifixion. A naive Jesus is the son not of God, but of Joseph. In the desert it is not Satan, but God that Christ tussles with, an autocrat with whom he has an unbalanced and unsettled relationship.

Para celebrar Abril e os 50 anos de democracia: O GRANDE ÁLBUM DE FOTOGRAFIA SOBRE O25 DE ABRIL DE 1974, PELA LENTE DE ALFREDO CUNHA, O FOTÓGRAFO QUE ESTEVE LÁ EM TODOS OS MOMENTOS. Com textos originais de Carlos Matos Gomes, Adelino Gomes e Fernando Rosas, e intervenções de Vhils sobre imagens icónicas de Cunha – para a capa e separadores. No dia 25 de Abril de 1974 (uma quinta-feira, tal como voltará a acontecer em 2024), Alfredo Cunha estava em Lisboa e fotografou a revolução nos seus principais cenários, captando imagens icónicas que perduram até hoje associadas ao acontecimento que mudou a História de Portugal. Para celebrar os 50 anos de democracia, Alfredo Cunha concebeu, a partir das suas imagens, um livro em três partes: Guerra — com texto de Carlos Matos Gomes, militar de Abril e da guerra colonial; Dia 25 de Abril — com texto de Adelino Gomes, repórter que acompanhou os acontecimentos em Lisboa; Depois de Abril — com texto de Fernando Rosas, historiador e protagonista destes anos quentes. «Este dia 25 de Abril não me pertence. É o 25 de Abril do Alfredo Cunha, então com 20 anos e que logo no início da carreira tem inesperadamente o dia mais importante da sua vida de fotógrafo. Uma dádiva e uma maldição. Há 50 anos que incansavelmente fotografa, expõe e publica como que para fugir e de novo voltar a esse dia. Quando me apresentou a maqueta deste livro, colocou‑a em cima da mesa e disse: ‘Acabou. Está resolvido.’ Esta é uma obra monumental, histórica e teoricamente impossível. Meio século depois do 25 de Abril, consegue reunir o fotógrafo que esteve presente em quase todos os momentos do dia e dos meses que se seguiram; o olhar do militar no terreno, Carlos Matos Gomes, que pertenceu ao Movimento dos Capitães; o olhar do repórter suspenso, Adelino Gomes, que perante o desenrolar dos acontecimentos marca o momento em que nasce a liberdade de expressão, ao conseguir um microfone emprestado para colocar a revolução no ar; e o do ativista na clandestinidade, Fernando Rosas, hoje historiador jubilado. Pediram a Vhils para selar esta obra, como se se tratasse de uma cápsula feita para enviar para o futuro, para ser lida e vivida, dado ter sido escrita e fotografada por quem viveu apaixonadamente uma revolução, mas, 50 anos depois, se prestou a depositar aqui o seu testemunho analítico.» — LUÍS PEDRO NUNES, PREFÁCIO

Prefácio de António LopesAssociação Portuguesa de Arte Fotográfica (APAF)***O LIVRO MAIS ATUAL E DIDÁTICO SOBRE FOTOGRAFIAEscrito de forma didática, simples, acessível e entusiasta, este livro, completo e atual, ensina as bases do processo fotográfico digital, desde a composição e o registo da imagem, à sua edição e publicação, sem esquecer o desenvolvimento de um projeto fotográfico.Trata-se de uma obra de referência obrigatória para quem se quer iniciar e desenvolver no apaixonante mundo da fotografia digital, uma realidade generalizada ao alcance de todos e impulsionada pela capacidade que os smartphones têm de incorporar máquinas fotográficas que permitem o registo e a publicação diários de milhares de imagens.Um livro repleto de conceitos estéticos e estratégias técnicas, destinado a todos os que queiram aprender fotografia.UM LIVRO A PENSAR EM SI:+ 370 fotografias+ 120 dicas úteis+ 90 ilustrações+ 100 recursos web+ 20 fotógrafos convidados+ 20 exemplos de fotografias de várias áreas+ 30 exemplos de fotografia com flash NOVO15 técnicas criativas exemplificadas1 apêndice do Centro Português de Fotografia (CPF)Recomendação da APAF (Associação Portuguesa de Arte Fotográfica) NOVOO QUE PODE ENCONTRAR NESTE LIVRO?· História da fotografia  · Elementos de cultura visual  · Características da luz e da cor · Enquadramento e construção de imagens · Tipos de equipamentos fotográficos  · Tempo de exposição, abertura e ISO  · Fotografar em modo manual  · Técnicas criativas  · Bases de edição · Sugestões para evoluir na fotografia· Conceitos e técnicas de iluminação com flash NOVO· Desenvolver um projeto fotográfico NOVOCom a participação dos fotógrafos:André Boto | André Brito | DiArte | Diogo Lage | Frederico van Zeller | Hugo Silva | Hugo Suíssas | João Azevedo | José Fragozo | Luís Godinho | Luís Mileu | Miguel Lopes | Pau Storch | Pedro Gomes | Pedro Nóbrega | Ricardo Garrido | Rita Fevereiro | Rui Guerra | Tânia Neves | Tiago Sales | Valter Antunes

As melhores imagens do ano através da objetiva dos repórteres fotográficos da Lusa, a agência noticiosa portuguesa, chegam às livrarias portuguesas, em mais uma edição anual bilingue a juntar à de 2021 e 2022.

Ambitious in scope, democratic in nature, Magnum Streetwise is an unmissable tour through the photographs and practices that have helped define what street photography is and can be. Magnum photographers such as Henri Cartier-Bresson pioneered modern concepts of street photography before the term was even coined. But their influence is far from historic. A rich seam of street photography runs through the heart of Magnum to this day, both in the work of recognized masters of street photography such as Erwitt, Parr, Gilden and Kalvar and of those who might not even consider themselves street photographers; a continued influence that has not gone unnoticed among the current generation of budding street photographers and fans.Magnum Streetwise is a true visual feast, interleaving insightful texts and anecdotes within an intuitive blend of photographer- and theme-based portfolios, exploring not only the work of outstanding photographers, but how common subject matter (places of leisure, marketplaces, travel) and locations (Paris, New York, Tokyo) have been addressed, conceptually and practically, across the agency and through the ages. Magnum Streetwise is an essential addition to the bibliography of street photography, showcasing hidden gems alongside many of the genre s most famous images.

Presenting the story of New York in photographs, photo-portraits, maps, and aerial views, this title contains nearly 600 pages of emotional, atmospheric images, from the mid-19th century onwards. It includes hundreds of quotations and references from relevant books, movies, shows and songs.

Álbum em capa dura, com 275 das fotografias captadas por Paul Mc-Cartney entre dezembro de 1963 e fevereiro de 1964 – quando os Beatles foram catapultados para a fama –, que nos oferece uma perspetiva única sobre o que era ser um dos «Fab Four» no início da Beatlemania.

Revoluções – Guiné-Bissau, Angola e Portugal (1969-1974), apresenta 118 fotografias de Uliano Lucas, tiradas durante as viagens efectuadas a esses três territórios, observando o quotidiano das guerrilhas do PAIGC e do MPLA e em Portugal antes e depois de Abril. Este livro, em edição bilingue português-inglês, procura dar a conhecer o trabalho fotográfico de Uliano Lucas, reunindo fotografias éditas e inéditas. Entre as éditas, algumas foram publicadas em catálogos fotográficos em Itália ou ilustrando reportagens em jornais e revistas europeias no início da década de 1970, mas são muito pouco conhecidas em Portugal, na Guiné-Bissau e em Angola. Esta edição dá a conhecer aos leitores algumas das histórias por imagens que o século das Revoluções nos deixou.