{"title":"Joan Colom","description":"\u003cp data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJoan 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 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIzas, rabizas y colipoterras\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"izas-rabizas-y-colipoterras-juan-colom-camilo-jose-cela-1964","title":"Izas, Rabizas y Colipoterras — Juan Colom \u0026 Camilo José Cela — 1964","description":"\u003cp\u003eClássico espanhol controverso - as ruas cruas de Barcelona através do texto e da objetiva Erótico, humano, sem sentimentalismos - uma colisão literário-fotográfica que escandalizou e definiu uma época. A união do laureado com o Prémio Nobel Camilo José Cela e do fotógrafo Joan Colom resultou num dos fotolivros mais subversivos de Espanha. Proibido, reverenciado e citado em \u003cem\u003ePhotobook: Vol. 1\u003c\/em\u003e, de Parr \u0026amp; Badger, capta a intimidade áspera do Barrio Chino de Barcelona, o bairro de prostituição da cidade na década de 1960.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFicha técnica\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTítulo:\u003c\/strong\u003e Izas, Rabizas y Colipoterras\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eArtista \/ Autor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Juan Colom \u0026amp; Camilo José Cela\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eData:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1964\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lumen","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51769041027410,"sku":null,"price":45.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0999\/7058\/0818\/files\/TODWEBB_copy_copy_5_d0b9ea4e-922b-427f-9a16-1de5206b2141.jpg?v=1792692717"},{"product_id":"joan-colom-i-work-the-streets-1957-2010","title":"I Work the Streets 1957–2010 — Joan Colom - La Fabrica","description":"\u003cp\u003eJoan Colom's I Work the Streets 1957–2010 surveys more than five decades of photography by one of Barcelona's most distinctive observers. Colom is closely associated with the Raval, formerly known as the Barrio Chino, whose streets, workers and marginalised communities he photographed with unusual proximity. The book also follows the evolution of his practice beyond the iconic early work. It is essential for understanding postwar Barcelona, the ethics of street photography and the changing social geography of the city.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTechnical Sheet\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTitle:\u003c\/strong\u003e I Work the Streets 1957–2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eArtist \/ Author:\u003c\/strong\u003e Joan Colom\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 474\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 32 × 24 cm\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/strong\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9788415691778\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Very good\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"La Fábrica","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55184638148946,"sku":"9788415691778","price":65.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0999\/7058\/0818\/files\/TODWEBB_copy_copy_4_1a357f72-406c-42fa-8927-a6dcb31c5179.jpg?v=1792692442"},{"product_id":"raval-joan-colom-steidl-2006","title":"RAVAL — Joan Colom — Steidl 2006","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor more than two years, Joan Colom spent his weekends photographing the streets of Barcelona's Raval, historically known as the Barrio Chino. Working among passers-by, sex workers and neighbourhood residents, he developed an unusually direct and instinctive approach to urban photography, recording the gestures and encounters of a community largely absent from official representations of the city.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSeeking to remain unnoticed, Colom often photographed without looking through the viewfinder, later determining the final composition in the darkroom. This working method produced images of remarkable immediacy: tightly cropped figures, fleeting exchanges and fragments of everyday street theatre. Rather than constructing a picturesque portrait of Barcelona, his photographs register the contradictions and vitality of life under Franco's dictatorship.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublished by Steidl in 2006, Raval revisits the body of work that established Colom as a central figure of postwar Spanish photography. With contributions by Pepe Font de Mora and Agnès Sire, the book places his photographs in the context of Barcelona's social history and the modern photographic language emerging in Spain during the late 1950s and early 1960s. Colom's work was recognised early by photographers and critics including Ramón Masats and Josep Maria Casademont.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat makes this Steidl edition particularly compelling is the way it invites a different reading of Colom’s celebrated Barcelona photographs. His earlier book \u003cem\u003eIzas, rabizas y colipoterras\u003c\/em\u003e, published in 1964 with texts by Camilo José Cela, presented a markedly selective vision of the streets, with prostitution occupying a central place in its literary and visual framing. \u003cem\u003eRaval\u003c\/em\u003e, by contrast, allows Colom’s broader documentary sensibility to emerge: the neighbourhood becomes a complex social environment, populated by ordinary residents as well as figures from its margins, rather than being reduced to a single subject. Steidl’s carefully considered reproduction gives the photographs room to breathe and makes the subtlety of Colom’s observation especially apparent. 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