Espagne Occulte by Cristina Garcia Rodero. First French edition (1990). First impression in near fine condition. No internal markings. Pages clean, binding firm. The jacket has a closed tear to the bottom front corner. Now in removable protective sleeve. Please see pictures (text in French). PayPal accepted, any questions please get in touch.
About Espagne Occulte
This tour de force by recently "discovered" Spanish photographer Cristina García Rodero shows the people of Spain expressing the extremes of their traditional culture -- religious devotion mixes with profane and exotic celebrations. The outcome is a weird and exciting amalgam of images -- religious celebrations and processions, bull fights, dances, bacchanals, weddings, feasts, as well as funerals. Toreadors and midgets, housewives and priests, children and also the aged are captured in moments of passion, sadness, joy, abandon, and oblivion. This book introduces Americans to Rodero, well known in Spain but first discovered in the U.S. at Houston's Fotofest 1990.
Artist Bio from Magnum
Cristina García Rodero was born in Puertollano, Spain. She studied painting at the School of Fine Arts at the University of Madrid, before taking up photography. She then qualified as a teacher and worked full time in education. For the next 16 years, she also dedicated her time to researching and photographing popular and traditional festivities – religious and pagan – principally in Spain but also across Mediterranean Europe. This project then culminated in her book España Oculta published in 1989, which won the “Book of the Year Award” at the Arles Festival of Photography.
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