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CAPA, Robert; TARO, Gerda; SEYMOUR, David ['Chim', born Dawid SZYMIN]; SALA, Josep.

Madrid.

Madrid.

Stock Code 118769

Barcelona, Industries Grafiques Seix I Barral [for Edicionnes del Comissariat de Propaganda de Catalunia], February 1937.

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This publication includes photographs by David 'Chim' Seymour, Gerda Taro, and Robert Capa, which portray the destruction wrought on the city and its people and follow the subsequent exodus from Madrid to Catalonia. The final section, comprising photographs of shell damage and human casualties, is entitled 'Barcelona also'. It ends with a large red question mark.

The photomontages and layout are by Catalan photographer Josep Sala, known for his modernist advertising photomontages.

First edition; (299 x 234 mm, 11¾ x 9¼ in); 97 black & white photographs, 3 black & white and colour photomontages, text in Catalan, Spanish, French, and English; side-stitched adhesive-bound photomontage-illustrated wrappers, light wear to edges and extremities, two pieces of ephemera relating to the Spanish Pavilion at the 1937 Exposition Internationale de Paris, an excellent copy; [96]pp.

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