CHARLES CLIFFORD. PHOTOGRAPHER OF SPAIN ISABEL II. EDITING THE VISO 1996 Charles Clifford (1819-1863) is one of the undisputed masters of nineteenth-century photography. He arrived in Spain from Britain in mid-century, was dedicated during a short period of time shows with hot air balloons, but soon found himself in Madrid a public willing to accept their technical and stylistic innovations. The same Queen Elizabeth II was its main customer, and instructed various commemorative albums of his official trips to Andalusia, Catalonia, the Balearic Islands, Extremadura, which offered Clifford the possibility of photographing the monuments of the cities they visited, as well as more ambitious public works of the time, as the channel of Isabel II. But he also took as a reason, moving away from mere documentary photography, the colorful characters that was found on the road, and certain landscapes that impressed by its ruggedness and grandiosity.
