FESTIVALS & RITUALS OF SPAIN — Cristina García Rodero — Harry N. Abrams, 1994

First published in Spanish as España: fiestas y ritos in 1992, Festivals & Rituals of Spain is a major exploration of the country’s religious celebrations, popular ceremonies and deeply rooted communal traditions. Cristina García Rodero photographs processions, festivities, acts of devotion and public performances with an intensity that refuses picturesque folklore. Her images register exhaustion, ecstasy, theatricality, tenderness and the complex relationship between belief and the body.

Made across a period of social and political transformation, the photographs offer a record of Spanish communities negotiating continuity and change. The book extends the concerns that made España oculta a landmark of documentary photography, while opening a wider view onto ritual and collective identity. This substantial English-language edition, published in New York by Harry N. Abrams, makes García Rodero’s sustained investigation accessible beyond Spain.

Technical Sheet
Title: Festivals & Rituals of Spain
Artist / Author: Cristina García Rodero
Text: José Manuel Caballero Bonald
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams, New York
Date: 1994
Edition: First American edition; original Spanish edition published by Lunwerg in 1992
Pages: 276 (as listed for this ISBN; some catalogues differ)
Dimensions: 26 × 34.3 × 2.5 cm
Medium / Materials: Hardcover; dust jacket 
Language: English
ISBN: 9780810938397
Condition: Mint