Author: RODERO, Cristina Garcia
Title: Cristina García Rodero - Espagne Occulte. Textes Claude Nori & Christian Caujolle
Description: Paris, Contrejour, 1990. 29.5 x 29.5 cm. Hardcover with dustjacket. With 126 b/w photographs. - 'When Spanish photographer Cristina Garcia Rodero (b. 1949) went to study art in Italy, in 1973, she fully understood the importance of home. Yet her time abroad formented a deeper interest in was happening in her own country and, as a result, at the age of 23, Garcia Rodero returned to Spain and started a project that she hoped would capture the essence of the myriad Spanish traditions, religious practices and rites that were already fading away. What started as a five-year project ended up lasting 15 years and came to be the book Espana Oculta(Hidden Spain) published in 1989. At 39 years old, Garcia Rodero had managed to compile a kind of anthropological encyclopedia of her country.' - [Magnum Photos] - Top edge, verso dustjacket, and first blank a little bit foxed, otherwise a fine copy

Keywords: 9782859490959


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