Kirjahaku

Although Campu´a was the usual photographer of Franco and the Spanish royal family during the dictatorship, to limit any definition of Campu´a to the title of “Franco’s photographer” means falling prey to reductionism. The vantage point offered by this book allows us to delve deeper into the photographer’s work and discover him as a multifaceted figure. It offers us the chance to overcome stereotypes, expand our viewpoint and see the portrait created as an entire society walked in front of the camera held by this great master of 20th-century Spanish photography.

Ricardo Jime´nez (Caracas, 1951) is an active sightseer who has learned to get lost in the city so he can later find it again, and on the way find himself. Ricardo Jime´nez is a careful yet discreet observer. He never draws attention to himself but manages to find poetic images in the manner of a water diviner who makes his discovery, with a modest expression, short on words and little but a hand-held tool which he only implements when there is no other choice.