Alberto García-Alix – Llorando a aquella que creyó amarme

This photobook by Alberto García-Alix, published in 2002 by La Fábrica, is part of the Darwin Bookshop because it gathers the haunted, erotic and mythic realism of one of Spain’s most singular photographic voices. Llorando a aquélla que creyó amarme—Weeping for the One Who Thought She Loved Me—is a requiem for desire and a portrait of García-Alix’s Spain: decadent, intimate, performative, and politically raw.

Produced on the occasion of the 2002 PHotoEspaña retrospective following his receipt of Spain’s National Photography Prize, the book presents a fiercely autobiographical selection from three decades of work. It features lovers, addicts, drifters, trans performers, old cinemas, and neon signs—always rendered in García-Alix’s trademark high-contrast monochrome. In one spread, a naked couple clutch each other on a parquet floor like a neoclassical ruin. In another, a woman stares defiantly from under tangled branches, or lies in bed as a shadow-hand gestures like a pistol across the wall. Every image holds the tension between tenderness and threat.

The title, taken from a line that reads more like a tattoo than a sentence, sets the register of romantic ruin. This is García-Alix’s Madrid: a place of night, memory, sex and mourning. The book is printed and bound in Spain with a dark cinematic cover and crisp bilingual captions, bridging documentary and drama with unapologetic physicality.

Technical Sheet

Title
Llorando a aquélla que creyó amarme

Artist / Author
Alberto García-Alix

Date
2002

Technique / Printing Method
Offset printing

Medium / Materials
Hardcover

Dimensions (cm)
24.5 x 27.5 cm

Language
Spanish, English

Pages
Approx. 160 (unpaginated)

Publisher / Editor
La Fábrica

ISBN
84-95471-49-3

Condition: Available New & Mint