Joan Colom (1921–2017) photographed Barcelona’s Raval district during the 1950s and 1960s, recording street life, prostitution and working-class encounters. Often shooting discreetly from waist level, he developed an unposed, fragmented visual language. His book Izas, rabizas y colipoterras (1964), with Camilo José Cela, provoked controversy. Darwin selects Colom for exposing the tensions between documentary intimacy, voyeurism and the marginal urban worlds also explored by Brassaï.
