A DAY IN THE LIFE OF SPAIN Photography Editorial Planeta Barcelona, 1987 Printed cloth binding, hardcover with dust jacket Publisher good condition coated paper Measures 36.5 x 26 cm. 220 pgs
This week we show you a photography book, something you do not usually talk. Specifically we want to be familiar with. Book A Day in the Life of Spain, published in 1988 by Collins and whose publishers are Rick Smolan and David Elliot Cohen
The book presents a selection of 275 color photographs and black and white, carried out by 100 of the finest photojournalists of the time met in our country in order to take snapshots of all Spain on one day. on May 7, 1987
the photographs, among which may be windmills, laborers, fishermen, swimmers, men playing dominoes, miners working or a flamenco dancer, intended to show the passing of a day through the Spanish geographic variety, for which is also supported by some texts, like a beautiful capsule time it were the intention of this book is to record what was a typical day in Spain at the moment as indicated in the book itself, .. " with this book, the effort of those who performed, we found one day not erase history; and together with the joy of recognizing ourselves in it, we feel the heartbeat of the living, preserved for us and for those who come after us in a few selected images from about one hundred twenty thousand photographs that tried that day, which was and still life, . disappeared"
This book, in its English version is the seventh volume of the a Day series in the Life, was the first to focus on a European country Smolan worked as a photographer for publications great. prestige as Time, Life and National Geographic and by Cohen both got two books in the series entered the bestseller list of the New York Times: a Day in the Life of America (1986) and a Day in the Life of . the Soviet Union (1987) the series features volumes on a large number of countries and thanks to them both editors are credited with creating a mass market for illustrated books large format .