Pérez Siquier — Monograph, 2020

This monograph is a dazzling compendium of colour photography by Spanish pioneer Carlos Pérez Siquier, published by Fundación MAPFRE in 2020. The cover alone — a woman bronzed and lacquered under the Andalusian sun, adorned in blue eyeshadow and matching floral swimwear — stages the saturated codes of postwar modernity that Pérez Siquier made his own. Shot mostly in the seaside neighbourhood of La Chanca, Almería, and its surrounding tourist zones, these images bridge ethnographic sharpness with pop exuberance.

Pérez Siquier was among the first in Spain to embrace colour photography in earnest, finding in it not just aesthetic delight but a way to map the collision of traditional life with the synthetic modern. His lens captures a visual vernacular of transition — the facades of humble homes painted in light-catching hues, the flash of artificial glamour against sun-bleached landscapes. This volume doesn’t merely document a Spain of the 1960s and 70s — it invents it anew through the lens of colour, at once affectionate and ironic, always exacting.

Alongside figures like Luigi Ghirri and William Eggleston, Pérez Siquier occupies a crucial place in the lineage of colour modernism — but with a distinctly Mediterranean pulse on the spirit of Martin Parr. This book offers both a retrospective and a vivid immersion into his most emblematic visual strategies: flatness, gesture, costume, façade.

Title: Pérez Siquier
Artist / Author: Carlos Pérez Siquier
Date: 2020
Technique / Printing Method: Offset colour printing
Medium / Materials: Hardcover, cloth spine with printed boards
Dimensions (cm): approx. 24 x 28 cm
Language (books): Spanish
Publisher / Editor (books): Fundación MAPFRE
ISBN: 978-84-9844-745-3
Condition: NEW