Photos & Books: Stories of a Scopic Drive

Lances de Aldea Cristóbal Hara

This is the first book in which Cristóbal Hara publishes his color photography work. Moving away from conventional photojournalism, Hara uses his own fragmented and subjective visual language to explore everyday life in rural Spain. The work does not seek to document tradition from a nostalgic or traditionalist perspective, but rather captures local rituals and […]

1992 Photovisión

Vanitas Cristóbal Hara

As in the paintings we call vanitas, death has a habit of appearing in many of the most brilliant manifestations of Spanish culture. From Teresa of Ávila to Federico García Lorca; from Valdés Leal to Dalí, via Goya and Solana, death is a familiar and everyday presence. In this book, imbued with subtle humor and […]

1998 Editorial Mestizo y Photovisión

Autobiografía Cristóbal Hara

Cristóbal Hara uses images taken in contemporary Spain and filters them through the emotional memories of his childhood. The result degs deep into Spanish culture and into the cultural background of his generation.

2007 Steidl

An Imaginary Spaniard Cristóbal Hara

Why is there a woman lying cheerfully in a coffin in the middle of a crowd? And what kind of bishop is that with a naked beauty on his cape? Cristóbal Hara’s photographs show an undiscovered Spain, far from its beautiful beaches and urban centers, with its ordinary people and animals, and their peculiarities. The […]

2004 Steidl UK

Archipiélago / Los ensayos banales 1 Cristóbal Hara

Archipelago is the first installment in Cristóbal Hara’s collection The trivial essays. Photographic language, specifically the language of photography that strives to be documentary, is limited by many rules and conventions. The work of Cristobal Hara focuses on the search for alternatives to the conventions of his time. In Los Ensayos Banales, the essay form, […]

2014 Ediciones Anómalas

01/ Fiesta Fiesta La Casa de Campo Antonio M Xoubanova

The Casa de Campo is a forest in the middle of the city. It is an island full of castaways and tourists. It is a great place to go in search of nothing in particular; to find things you didn’t know you were looking for. You might bump into your cousin or His Majesty on […]

Fiesta ediciones

Belleza de Barrio Ricardo Cases

In this book, the author sets aside his prejudices and seeks beauty from a perspective other than his own. He forgets his assumptions, determined by the commercial filters of the advertising machine, and tries to reach inside the person, inviting them to be beautiful, to show their own idea of beauty: the beauty they want […]

2008 Universidad de Extremadura. Servicio de Publicaciones

La caza del lobo congelado [The hunt for the frozen wolf] Ricardo Cases

The owner of a hunting ground in northern Spain recounts that not long ago he hunted a wolf. In better times, the animal would have been stuffed or perhaps thrown straight into the rubbish. Today, this rare and illegal trophy ended up in a freezer. ‘If important people come to hunt, we take it out […]

2009 Fiesta ediciones

Paloma al aire Ricardo Cases

The remote-controlled desire The pigeon fancier invests time, money and hopes in his pigeons. He breeds them, names them, trains them and has faith in them. When the day of the competition arrives, he goes with the excitement and uncertainty of a child. Pigeon racing is a sport with rules and referees. Pigeons can be […]

2011 Photovisión

El porqué de las Naranjas Ricardo Cases

At first sight, reality appears chaotic and anarchic. If events have any kind of logic to them, it lies well hidden behind an overlay of banality so thick as to make it invisible. And yet, at certain exceptional moments, life slackens and reveals itself. The automaton allows its innards be glimpsed, and its mechanism becomes […]

2014 Mack

TOT Ricardo Cases

In recent years, the photographic work of Ricardo Cases has focused on portraying the particularities of landscape, the precise impact that human behaviour has on it and, consequently, the nature of the people that inhabit and modify it. He concentrates on his immediate geographical surroundings (the town of Torrent, in Valencia), adopting different strategies in […]

2022 Dalpine

Los tamarindos de La Concha Ricardo Cases

Los tamarindos de La Concha [La Concha’s Tamarinds] is the continuation of photographer Ricardo Cases’s urban exploration, which began in 2018 in the city of Valencia and was published in 2023 under the title El ficus del Parterre [El Parterre’s Ficus]. These brief photographic essays are now joined by those carried out in San Sebastián […]

2024 Dalpine y Kutxa Fundazioa

Estudio elemental del Levante Ricardo Cases

Ha sido un placer volver a trabajar con Ricardo Cases, y esta vez acompañados de Torch Press (JP) y The Ice Plant (USA). En este nuevo libro, Ricardo continúa investigando el entorno que le rodea, la región del Levante español, que ha observado de cerca durante varios años. Bandas de música tradicional, palmeras (y un […]

2020 Dalpine

Bibop Pascual Arnal y Ricardo Cases

There is a fanzine for immediate sale which is indeed an experience that speaks of immediacy and the activation of spaces: Bibop. In 2017, photographers Pascual Arnal and Ricardo decided to photograph, produce and present a publication in a single day. Tipode Office collaborated on the design, and it was printed in risography at the […]

2017 Per-r-ucho

Paellas y coches Ricardo Cases

This work reflects on new ways of relating to our most universally known dish, paella. For decades, ‘takeaway paella’ made in restaurants has coexisted with the social ritual of homemade paella. Haste, lack of time and the search for greater convenience have established new ways of relating to this emblematic dish, but it has continued […]

2021 Selfpublished

Sol Ricardo Cases

Continuing along the lines begun in El porqué de las naranjas (The Reason for Oranges), Ricardo Cases once again explores a cliché of the Levantine coast. Approaching his task as a child’s game of pretending to be the sun, the author immerses himself in the blinding light of the Levantine summer in search of its […]

2017 Dalpine

Lagarto Lagarto Cristóbal Hara

«See images from the book Memory of W gave me the idea for this book. W was the daughter of a German father and an Arawak Indian mother, and although her mother was Catholic, she adopted her father’s Protestant religion. When I met her, W. was living in Amsterdam and was a very active member […]

1998 Editorial Mestizo

Biblioteca de Fotógrafos Españoles, PHotoBolsillo 19, Cristóbal Hara Cristóbal Hara

Cristóbal Hara’s photographic language has evolved from a clear documentary approach, in the best Bresonian tradition of the ‘decisive moment’, to reducing reality to fiction, through an inner journey in which he has even changed techniques and media. After years of photographing festivals in small villages across Spain, Hara has moved from black and white […]

2010 La Fábrica

Catálogo Ricardo Cases

On 29 October 2024, torrential rain fell on the province of Valencia, leaving villages devastated and claiming the lives of hundreds of people. Among the enormous material and emotional losses, one of many was Ricardo Cases’ library.

2025 Selfpublished

Das Land 1981–1993 Manfred Wilmann

«My theme is people and their lives, nature. Sometimes I work on everything at once, sometimes I focus more closely on one theme: getting particularly close to physical existence. The reference to nature cannot be drastic enough to show its sensitivity (transience). I, too, must protect myself from my vulnerability. (…) Talking about the things […]

2000 Fotohof

El Blanco Ricardo Cases

In 2007, Ricardo Cases embarked on a journey through Mali accompanied by a white man. Along the way, he photographed everything that caught his attention and took portraits of his companion, a man from Seville who basically spent his time thinking and observing. Upon his return, Cases reviewed the material and began to play with […]

2016 Dalpine

Images à la sauvette Henri Cartier-Bresson

Published in 1952 by Verve, on the initiative of Tériade, it brings together photographs taken by Henri Cartier-Bresson during the first twenty years of his career. It is a monograph of the best of Henri Cartier-Bresson’s work, published by an art publisher, with an original cover by Matisse.

1952 Éditions Verve

Les Européens [The Europeans] Henri Cartier-Bresson

Les Européens [The Europeans] presents 114 photographs taken between 1950 and 1955. It was a time when Cartier-Bresson was very busy travelling in Europe, mostly on assignment for one magazine or another. His pictures from Greece, Spain, Ireland, France, Switzerland and Austria appeared in numerous other magazines. Consequently, it is no coincidence that three fifths […]

1955 Éditions Verve

Les Americains [The Americans] Robert Frank

In the nearly seven decades since its publication in France in 1958 by Robert Delpire, then in the United States in 1959, Robert Frank’s The Americans has become one of the most influential and enduring works of American photography. Through eighty-three photographs taken across the country, Frank unveiled an America that had gone previously unacknowledged—confronting […]

1958 Delpire

Life is Good & Good for You in New York: Trance witness revels William Klein

In 1956, William Klein’s New York, one of the most important books in the history of photography, was published. The work created a veritable revolution. Breaking with the medium’s taboos and traditions, Klein developed a radically new way of taking pictures, inventing a violent, graphic style combining black humour, social criticism, satire, and poetry.

1956 Editeur Seuil

Love on the Left Bank Ed Van Der Elsken

It is a “photo-novella” that blends documentary photography with fiction, capturing the gritty, bohemian lives of young, existentialist beatniks in 1950s Paris, particularly around St. Germain-des-Prés.

1956 André Deutsch

Naked City Weegee

Naked City is the first and most influential photobook by photographer and photojournalist Weegee (pseudonym of Arthur Fellig). It stands out for its use of aggressive front flash and a ‘noir’ aesthetic that defined the tabloid style of the time. It was an immediate commercial success, reaching six printings in its first year alone and […]

1945 Essential Books

Diane Arbus Diane Arbus

When Diane Arbus died in 1971 at the age of forty-eight, she was already a significant influence-even something of a legend-among serious photographers, although only a relatively small number of her most important pictures were widely known at the time. The publication of Diane Arbus: An Aperture Monograph in 1972-along with the posthumous retrospective at […]

1972 Aperture

East 100 Street Bruce Davidson

For two years in the 1960s, Bruce Davidson photographed one block in East Harlem. He went back day after day, standing on sidewalks, knocking on doors, asking permission to photograph a face, a child, a room, a family. Through his skill, his extraordinary vision, and his deep respect for his subjects, Davidson’s portrait of the […]

1970 Harvard University Press

C.E.N.S.U.R.A. Julián Barón

In the grand circus that is politics, photography and censorship join forces to manipulate the people through the false use of images as documents, using the mainstream media to subtly but constantly mask those aspects that do not respond to the parties’ pretensions, clouding and distorting reality. However, by approaching politics and its leaders differently, […]

2011 Selfpublished

Mediodía David Hornillos

In the past, Madrid’s Atocha station was known as Estación del Mediodía (Midday Station) because it was the southernmost station in the city. This is the setting in which David Hornillos carried out his work between 2011 and 2014 during the middle of the day. Mediodía presents an absorbing orange brick wall bathed in vibrant […]

2014 Dalpine

The Waiting Game Txema Salvans

The Waiting Game brings together a series of photographs taken by Txema Salvans over six years along the Spanish Mediterranean coast. It forms a striking picture of need and desire, where concept and visual expression fit together perfectly. The essence of the work is an exploration of the varied and often surprising range of human […]

2013 EDITORIAL RM

Casa de Campo Antonio M Xoubanova

Photographer Antonio Xoubanova presents Casa de Campo, a vast wooded area west of Madrid inhabited by homeless people and strange characters. As a preface to this new title from Mack Publishing, a few photos of the paths that criss-cross these woods alert us to the kind of story we are about to encounter: a very […]

2013 Mack

Subida al cielo [Ascent into Heaven] Lúa Ribeira

Subida al cielo features five bodies of work by Galician photographer Lúa Ribeira made between 2016 and 2020: Subida al cielo, Las visiones, Aristócratas, La Jungla and Los afortunados [Ascent into Heaven, The Visions, Aristocrats, The Jungle and The Fortunate Ones]. In these five series, Ribeira approaches topics with a historical relation to documentary photography […]

2023 Dalpine

Amerikanske billeder Jacob Holdt

A personal journey through black America. Jacob Holdt became famous in the 1970s for his book and slide show Amerikanske billeder, with which he travelled throughout Denmark. It showed the hidden face of the United States through images taken by someone who explored neighbourhoods and areas that no one else dared to set foot in. […]

1977 Informations forlag

Karma Oscar Monzón

In Karma, a project developed in Madrid between 2009 and 2013, Óscar Monzón focuses on the car as a means of transportation that is not entirely distinct from the person who inhabits it, for the vehicle is in itself a product of the wheel that endlessly spins inside us. Karma explores a range of unconscious human behaviours […]

2014 RVB Books y Dalpine

Office / Kontor / オフィス Lars Tunbjörk

The office is one of our most common workplaces. A common working environment, yet rarely attracting attention. Photographically, working life is often depicted in visually and emotionally charged settings – industry, shipping, farming, prisons, hospitals, psychiatric institutions etc. On the other hand middleclass life fails to attract most photographers and has thus been documented very […]

2001 Journal