Carlos Saura: Vanished Spain

ISBN-13: 9783869309118 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 256 str.

Carlos Saura; Carlos Saura

Opis

When the great Spanish filmmaker Carlos Saura (born 1932) was a young man, he planned to make a book about his native Spain that would counter the propaganda imagery of the Franco regime. He set out for Andalusia and central Spain in the late 1950s, striving to create a portrait of the country. Since then, Saura has been fascinated not only by the process of photographing but by its technology, as demonstrated by his museum-quality collection of hundreds of historical and self-made cameras. Torn between the two media at the beginning of his career, he eventually chose to become a filmmaker but continued to take photographs.
Carlos Saura: Espana Anos 50 offers comprehensive insight into Saura's photography with a focus on his black-and-white work of the 1950s--compelling images of landscapes, villages, bullfights and people of a bygone era.

O autorze

Carlos Saura, born in Huesca in 1932, is one of the most important European filmmakers. His more than forty films include "Los Golfos" (1959), "La Caza" (1965), "Peppermint Frappé" (1967), his Flamenco Trilogy comprising the films "Bodas de Sangre" (1981), "Carmen" (1983) and "El amor brujo" (1986), as well as the dance documentaries "Flamenco" (1995) and "Tango" (1998).