La Barcelona de Pilar Aymerich

Author/s: Pilar Aymerich
Co-edition with: Editorial Comanegra
Collection: Behind the Scenes

Imatge de les pàgines interiors del llibre 'La Barcelona de Pilar Aymierhc'tat

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does this book provide the most important sample of her photographs ever published (some of them emblematic, others unpublished) but, thanks to the author's own texts, it also opens the door to emotions and motivations that are usually hidden behind the camera.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.”

Art

Culture

Feminism

Photography

Theatre

Women

Pilar Aymerich

Pilar Aymerich (Barcelona, 1943). 2021 National Photography Award, Spanish Ministry of Culture. Creu de Sant Jordi (St George’s Cross) awarded by the Catalan government in 2005.

His photographs of the feminist demonstrations of the 1970s, as well as the portraits that have immortalised the great figures of our culture, are absolutly iconic and recognised by several generations. Those figures are: Mercè Rodoreda, Josep Pla, Ovidi Montllor, Joan Fuster... and, above all, Maria Aurèlia Capmany and Montserrat Roig, two writers who were her role models, companions and friends, almost family.