PINTADAS DEL REFERENDUM

Collective
PINTADAS DEL REFERENDUM

Photographs: Collective

Text: Emanuel Lizcano, José Luis L. Aranguren

Publisher: El Equipo Diorama

150 pages

Year: 1977

Price: 35 €

Comments: Softcover, b&w photographs, 14.9 x 20.9 cm. Traces of use on the plastic cover, close to the spine and discoloration. Two pages are torn (see pictures). In good condition. Text in Spanish.

A referendum was held in December 1976 in Spain to vote on the political reform bill and a group of photographer called Equipo Diorama recorded the street graffiti made to comunicate the various positions in field and induce the reader to draw their own conclusions. The book's intention is to record the graffiti, "to preserve it, through photography, as a necessary testament to and document of the vicissitudes of a people in pursuit of their future". As stated on its back cover, picturing graffiti is a way to present a war against publicity, another way of communication.

The street graffiti with their slogan tells the story of a country and the inscriptions on the wall gave the protesters the freedom to represent all positions reminding that "humor in protest is a call that sets a trap for those who attack".

The book inclueds photographs from: Bárbara Allende, Rosa Asenjo, José Luis Asenjo, Dominique Bernis, José Enrico Bucciquero, Mariano Casado, Alfredo Cruz, Pedro Diez Pergignán, Guillermo Gay, Fernando Gil; Domingo Martin, Ramón Mourelle, Ceciolio Palencia, José Rodriguez Tarduchy, José Marcia Sacristán, Carlos Villasante.