CARLOS SAURA/ VANISHED SPAIN

When the great Spanish filmmaker Carlos Saura (born 1932) was a young man, he planned to make a book about his native Spain that wou ld counter the propaganda imagery of the Franco regime. He set out for Andalusia and central Spain in the late 1950s, striving to cr eate a portrait of the country. Since then, Saura has been fascinated not only by the process of photographing but by its technology , as demonstrated by his museum-quality collection of hundreds of historical and self-made cameras. Torn between the two media at th e beginn...[Read more]