Barcelona Llibres

The work of Pilar Aymerich (Barcelona, 1943) has permeated the country’s collective memory like few others. Her photographs alone have helped us to explain and recall the social struggles between the end of the 1960s and the 1980s. Not only does this book provide the most important sample of her photographs ever published (some of them emblematic, others unpublished) but, thanks to the author's own texts, it also opens the door to emotions and motivations that are usually hidden behind the camera. In short: pure memory of the city. 

“I’m a thoroughly urban person, I like cities, while on the beach I find there’s too much sand and I get lost in the mountains because there are no streets. I’m interested in everything that human beings do. For me, Barcelona has been an open city, where I’ve photographed the events that were taking place there, especially from the 1970s: the power of the popular mobilisations, its intellectuals, the theatre, etc. I’ve tried to convey, with images, the life I had before me because I’ve always been interested in telling stories.”