Books published by La Fabrica

Tracing the history of documentary photography, from Walker Evans to Xavier RibasThe medium of photography has long had tenuous ties to both the truth and the arts. This volume traces the evolution of documentary photography--from its origin as a journalistic tool through its development into a distinct artistic and aesthetic form. Beginning in the 1930s with Walker Evans' foundational influence on the genre and culminating in the 1980s with the experimental color work of Anthony Hernández and Tod Papageorge, Sculpting Reality presents a careful selection of work from 18 of the most influential figures in 20th-century North American documentary photography.Photographers include: Walker Evans, Helen Levitt, Robert Frank, Louis Faurer, Ricardo Rangel, Garry Winogrand, Susan Meiselas, Tod Papageorge, Anthony Hernández, Mike Mandel, Lee Friedlander, David Goldblatt, Ed Ruscha, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Lewis Baltz, Bleda Y Rosa, Xavier Ribas and Ian Wallace.

For this artist's sketchbook, Spanish painter, author and set designer Eduardo Arroyo (born 1937) created 20 drawings and then mailed them to 20 international artists, such as Bruno Bruni, William Klein and Peter Blake, to make pairs for them. This volume reproduces all 40 works. Text in Spanish only.

Perrin's beautiful photographs, wrapped in black, dive into the very soul of Justo Gallego's work, into its heartbeat, and allow the mystery of the place to unfold.

Wannabe is a photographic project about doll-like girls in Japanese culture, about the objectification of these women to serve societal customs that lead to android-like behaviour.

This is a unique volume in the guise of an artist's book which captures 45 years of work by an indispensable author.