ESPANA OCULTE

Cristina Garcia Rodero
ESPANA OCULTE

Photographs: Cristina Garcia Rodero

Text: Julio Caro Baroja

Publisher: Contrejour

142 pages

Pictures: 126

Year: 1990

ISBN: 8477820686

Price: 90 €

Comments: Hardcover, 29x29cm, First French edition, In very good condition other than a trace of folding on the dust jacket.

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 culminated in her book España Oculta published in 1989, which won the “Book of the Year Award” at the Arles Festival of Photography.

The same year, García Rodero also won the prestigious W. Eugene Smith Foundation Prize. The documentary and ethnological value of her work are considerable, but the aesthetic quality of her photography makes it more than a simple visual record.