Signed; Bruno Barbey - 68 - 2008

Signed and inscribed copy on the title page by Bruno Barbey (1941–2020), unique and unattainable online in a signed copy. 184 pages and more than 120 photographs, most in black and white but also a few in color, many full-page or double-page with captions in English, Spanish, and French. Catalog of an exhibition held in Spain. Text in Spanish, English, and French by Juan Bosco Díaz-Urmeneta Muñoz, aesthetics professor at the University of Seville. Copy in excellent condition (practically like new).

Bruno Barbey photographed all the political and social events that unfolded in France in May 1968, from the earliest student demonstrations to the barricades erected in the streets and the clashes between protesters and police; he photographed the occupied universities, particularly the Sorbonne but also the Théâtre de l’Odéon as well as the factories occupied by workers who joined the movement with their own demands for higher wages. He photographed the funeral of Gilles Tautin, a high school student who died by drowning in the Seine while trying to escape a police charge near the Renault factory. Finally he photographed the counter-protesters in solidarity with the ruling power. At the end of the book there are also photographs by Bruno Barbey taken in Tokyo during October 1968 as well as photographs of the Vietnam War from the early 1970s, a war that sparked numerous demonstrations around the world.

Bruno Barbey was born in 1941 in Morocco under a French protectorate where he spent his childhood. At 17 he went to study in Paris, spending long hours at the Cinémathèque Française. In 1959, he returned to the École des Arts et Métiers de Vevey in Switzerland, and in 1962 began a photographic project on the Italians, on which occasion he met photographers Henri Cartier-Bresson and Marc Riboud. He then began traveling around the world on behalf of Éditions Rencontre of Lausanne, where he published a picture book illustrating each destination. Bruno Barbey was 25 when he joined the Magnum agency in 1966, and he began, parallel to his author’s work, a career as a photojournalist that led him to undertake numerous short assignments related to current events around the world for publication in magazines. At Magnum, he served as Vice President for Europe from 1978 to 1979 and as President of Magnum International from 1992 to 1995.

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1.1 kg excluding packaging