Facultad de Humanidades y CC de la Comunicación

Durante la guerra civil española (1936-1939), se produce un gran crecimiento del reportaje de guerra, precedido por el desarrollo del fotoperiodismo alemán. La proximidad del fotógrafo a los hechos, gracias a las posibilidades técnicas del momento, da lugar a una realidad comunicativa nueva en lo que concierne a las imágenes de conflictos bélicos. Por esta razón, el fotoperiodismo se convierte en el medio ideal para ofrecer una temática variada, no solo con el foco puesto en la información bélica, sino con la posibilidad de difundir, además, imágenes de la población civil en su vida cotidiana. El objeto de estudio del presente artículo se ciñe al análisis de la imagen como reflejo de la vida cotidiana en La Vanguardia, uno de los diarios editado en el bando republicano que otorgó va lor y relevancia al análisis de la imagen durante toda la contienda, aunque con gran carga ideológica

Karl Marx’s writings about Spain have been published and studied on several occasions. Among the sources listed by Pedro Ribas, William Walton and his work The Revolutions of Spain, from 1808 to the End of 1836 figures among those mentioned most. Rather surprising, given that Walton sympathised with both Spanish Carlism and Portuguese Miguelism. Though he was born and died in England, Walton lived in the Spanish and Portuguese empires, in America and in the French colony of Santo Domingo at various stages in the course of his career. A Catholic in an Anglican country, he translated Puigblanch’s The Inquisition Unmasked. Neither did his political ideas remain unchanged throughout his life. This paper looks at the influence thatWalton had on Marx’s ideas about Spain, particularly as regards the Carlist political movement. Marx read Walton in the British Library and took detailed notes from his book. He used these notes in his articles regarding the events that occurred in the country. We will also reflect on the place that Walton begins to occupy in Peninsular historiography, through the bibliographical information on his changing political viewpoints and his proximity to contemporary events. For this article we started with the study of the biography and the work of William Walton, which led us to discover a possible connection with the thinking of Karl Marx. Our investigations have led us to consider that Walton’s writings on Spain helped to form the opinions expressed by Marx in his press articles.