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Background information
"When the great filmmaker Carlos SAURA was a young man, he desired to create a book about his native Spain that would transgress the propaganda imagery of the Franco regime. He strove to depict his country as seen through his camera when he set out on a journey through Andalusia and central Spain
in his Fiat 600 in the late 1950s. The trip left a deep impression on his first documentary film, 'Cuenca' (1958). Since his youth Carlos SAURA has been fascinated not only by the process of photographing but also by its technology, as demonstrated by his museum-quality collection of hundreds of historical and self-made cameras. Torn between the two media at the beginning of his career, SAURA eventually chose to become a filmmaker but has continued to take photographs.
Content
The Photo book 'Vanished Spain/España años 50' offers a comprehensive insight into SAURA’s photography with a focus on his black-and-white work of the 1950s: compelling images of landscapes, villages, bullfi ghts and people of another era. Photographs of Carlos SAURA’s diploma film project, 'La Tarde de Domingo' (1957), are also present in the book 'Vanished Spain/España años 50', making it the defi nitive representation of his photographic oeuvre." (publisher's note, © Steidl Verlag, 2016)
Description in Spanish:
"'Vanished Spain/España años 50' muestra un exhaustivo análisis de la fotografía de Saura centrándose en su trabajo en blanco y negro de los 50: imágenes de paisajes, villas, corridas de toros y en resumen gente de otra época. Las fotografías del proyecto de SAURA 'La tarde de domingo' (1957) también se incluyen en este libro, conformándolo como representación definitiva de su obra fotográfica."
About the photographer , Carlos SAURA (b. 1932 in Huesca, Spain)
Photo books by Carlos SAURA
'Vanished Spain' (2016)
- Format
- HC with dust jacket, 25,5 x 29 x 3 cm., 256 pp., b/w ills., 2,000 gr., text language: English