Ruven Afanador: Angel Gitano - The Men of Flamenco (Non-mint)

Hardcover | 28.91 x 3.56 x 36.58 cm | 240 pp

Rizzoli | 2014 | 9780847843435

In Angel Gitano, a surreal exploration of the men of flameneo, internationally renowned photographer Ruven Afanador pays homage to el ángel, the iconic manifestation of the Spanish soul. Afanador's astonishing images are informed by his own ángel - evocative of the magical realism of Gabriel Garcia Márquez, a fellow Colombian, and the elegant, erotic charge of Federico García Lorca's poetry.

Shot in high contrast under the unforgiving white sunlight of Andalusian Spain, these dazzling images present a universe inhabited by larger-than-life gypsies, soulful musicians, and, most of all, the male flamenco dancers, who are full of beauty and bravura. Captured in arranged poses or mid-dance, the dancers embody the wild, youthful passion inherent in the world of flamenco. In gorgeous costumes or in the nude, these men exude gritty glamour, innate classicism, and a singularly charged eroticism

Here, as in all his work, Afanador's extraordinary photographs confront and provoke, challenging conventional definitions of beauty and traditional boundaries of gender in an extravagant display of imagination and with an intensely personal visual language of gorgeous shadow and light

PLEASE NOTE: This book is a NON-MINT item. NON-MINT books are new but are either ex-display copies or warehouse marked - minor cosmetic imperfections such as scuffs, marks, or minor dents to the covers.