Photographs of Hidden Spain

https://www.magnumphotos.com/arts-culture/society-arts-culture/cristina-garcia-rodero-espana-oculta/

by phront • 8 years ago

62 22 8 years ago

This is absolutely fabulous. Thanks for sharing.

vnw• 8 years ago

That's very cool. It's also nice that some of those customs are still alive and kickin' in some parts of the countryside.

MordodeMaru3• 8 years ago

I'm not sure most of the pictures are recent enough.

dsiegel2275• 8 years ago

Fascinating.

I have a two week vacation planned in August to Galicia, Spain to visit the hometown of my great-grandfather. Will have to add some of these small towns to our list of places to visit.

MordodeMaru3• 8 years ago

The one with the man taking a piss directly to the camera? That's Galicia ;-)

Jokes aside it's the most fascinating region in Spain, believe me. You'll enjoy.

bloat• 8 years ago

At least one shot is NSFW.

cphoover• 8 years ago

NSFW yoo

jordache3• 8 years ago

i really do not like magnum. They were the ones responsible for google removing the save image link in google image search.

ecocentrik2• 8 years ago

Professional photographers haven't had an easy time protecting their work in the digital/internet age. I'm guessing you don't believe their craft has any value that can't be easily replaced by a hoards of amateurs with digital image collection devices in their pockets and crowdsourced curation. Even then, you'd have to admit that people who were making a living at this thing and were forced to abandon it by changes in technology should be afforded some consideration.

jordache3• 8 years ago

inability to right-click+save some how protects their work?

Photographers achieve success not due to successful prevention of users from downloading images they've made available on the internet. Skills, marketing, client-base, luck, are things that determine whether photographers are successful.

zenlot• 8 years ago

What do these masks in the photos symbolize?

bu0Ahcei• 8 years ago

Some info here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capirote.

samuel• 8 years ago

I hope nobody thinks these shots are somewhat representative of the country, even when they were taken(70's and 80's). At first glance I thought they were taken in the early 60's at most.

(Yeah, I know the "hidden" it's in the title itself and should warn about generalizing what's being shown, but still).

marcosmr• 8 years ago

I am from Galicia and shot #3 is definitely not representative from Galician Carnival. Galicia is a gorgeous destination, especially during Summer, but don't expect to have the kind of fun that the guy in photo #3 is having :-) Here are a couple of videos that provide a much better representation of what Galicia currently is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uG1hkCzefL0 and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtUqecPNXgI

vvillena• 8 years ago

You can definitely find popular festivals in Galicia where getting drunk is the main goal, if that's your thing. I'd say it's a waste of time, though, given how beautiful and great Galicia is. Better to get wasted closer to home.

mc32• 8 years ago

When you have Magnum photographers go to a place, they are not looking for the ordinary in the ordinary, but the extraordinary in the ordinary to create a sort of juxta. It's a bit exaggerated, a bit voyeuristic, in a minor sense exploitative.

Therefore, many of these commissions will end up not with representative photographs (as one might get from vernacular snapshots) but with images which show the more unusual shots, or the ordinary framed to be poignant. That's what these people get paid for.

xchip• 8 years ago

I think you can find peculiar people in every country.

aarroyoc• 8 years ago

Happy to see a photo of La Alberca. It's probably one of the most beautiful places in Spain, full of traditions, but very often forgotten by Spanish people, because it's isolated from the rest of the country and nowadays too few people live there. That may be the reason that it's still a magical place for some of us.

e40• 8 years ago

Warning: NSFW content on the 3rd photo I saw.

Photographs of Hidden Spain

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