Colita: Fotograffa Barcelona

COLITA is the pseudonym or Isabel Steva (b. 1940 In barcelona), one of trio leading exponents of contemporary Catalan photography. Direct. Intelligent. sensitive, committed, critical, unprejudiced. her work can be defined, apart from its esthetic qualites. by its Involvement with the times in which the photographer has lived. Free of artificiality and artistic pretentions. Colita’s work is not merely a documentation of reality but the projection of her own experiences and opinions, a visual corpus that reflects half a century of Spain’s recent history. This catalogue-book. published by AM under a joint imprint with the Fundacio Catalunya-La Pedrera, on the occasion or the exhibition Colita, [porque si] at La Pedrera. Barcelona (March 11 -July 13. 2014). offers a comprehensive Image of her work and throws into relief it’s versatIlIty, humour, and incisiveness: ranging from tine world of flamenco to the photography of feminist struggles, and including the interplay of dualities, cinema. Nova Canco. the gauche devine of the 1960’s. portraiture. photojournalism and the life of her own city, Barcelona.