Blanco y Negro was established in 1891. The title of the magazine was a reference to the contrasts in life such as laughter and tears and the sad and happy. The headquarters of the weekly was in Madrid.
Blanco y Negro employed color print, paper couché and advanced image printing techniques such as
photoengraving and
photogravure for the first time in Spain. In addition, it published the first
color photo in the country on 15 May 1912.
Carmen de Icaza, 8th Baroness of Claret's novel
Cristina Guzman, profesora de idiomas, was first published in
Blanco y Negro in August 1936. The weekly also published articles by
Hilda de Toledano (literary pseudonym of
Maria Pia of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha Braganza), a writer and famous pretender to the throne of
Portugal. In 1988,
Blanco y Negro became a Sunday supplement to the daily newspaper
ABC. In 2005, it was renamed
ABCD Las Artes y Las Letras and continues as a weekly supplement. ==See also==