My Kingdom (signed)
by Txema Salvans
Photographs: Txema Salvans
Publisher: MACK
176 pages
Year: December 2017
ISBN: 978-1-910164-85-3
Comments: 17.5 cm x 23 cm, first edition, 176 pages, 65 tritone plates, OTA bound paperback with silkscreen printed cover and flaps, with stapled booklet and postcard
x+"My Kingdom" by Catalan photographer Txema Salvans offers a sharp-witted insight into contemporary Spanish society, and a wry comment on the climate of power in the artist’s home country. Salvans splices together blackand-white photographs of ordinary citizens enjoying the Mediterranean coast, with citations from the political rhetoric of former King of Spain, Juan Carlos I (1975–2015). Drenched in authority and affect, his speech conveys a King playing the role of a good-natured sovereign, the tender ruler of a democratic monarchy.
In Salvans’ subversive combination of image and text, the language acts like a socio-political filter, through which the gestures and emotions of the beach-goers are seen – the hopes, the indolence, and the aggression of people parading their own small sovereignties: the freedom to nap, eat, sunbathe, play, love and suffer, and display their human uniqueness. Power, as something embodied and enacted, permeates the king’s speech and the interactions of ordinary Spaniards, on the beaches and residential development of ‘real’ Spain.
Accompanying "My Kingdom" is a booklet containing extracts of fervent speeches by political figures including Thatcher, Mussolini, Churchill and Chaplin the Dictator, all proclaiming the authoritarian power of the state over people.
More books by Txema Salvans
-
The Waiting Game (signed - last copy)
by Txema Salvans
sold out -
My Kingdom
by Txema Salvans
Euro 38.50
more books tagged »black and white« | >> see all
-
In That Land of Perfect Day (signed)
by Brandon Thibodeaux
Euro 82 -
I will be wolf
by Bertien van Manen
Euro 39 -
The house of the seven women
by Tito Mouraz
sold out -
Path In Between (signed)
by Hajime Kimura
sold out -
At 3 a.m. (signed)
by Ivan Blazhev
Euro 25 -
Transparency is the new mystery (last copy)
by Mayumi Hosokura
Euro 38.50
more books tagged »Spain« | >> see all
-
Photobook Phenomenon (last copy)
by various photographers
sold out -
Lobismuller (signed - last copy)
by Laia Abril
sold out -
LAND (signed)
by Laura Van Severen
sold out -
Miserachs Barcelona
by Xavier Miserachs
sold out -
The Hunt
by Álvaro Laiz
sold out -
ANKUNFT BEI AUFBRUCH
by Sebastian Hesse, Andreas Rost & Christian Reister
sold out
more books tagged »Spanish« | >> see all
-
Moon Trail
by Alfonso Almendros
sold out -
Vida y milagros de Paula P. (signed - last copy)
by Cristina de Middel
Euro 165 -
One Eyed Ulysses (signed)
by JM Ramirez-Suassi
sold out -
Peter
by Carma Casulá
Euro 44 -
Party. Quotations from Chairman Mao TseTong (signed)
by Cristina de Middel
sold out -
SPBH Book Club Vol III (signed - last copy)
by Cristina de Middel
sold out
Random selection from the Virtual bookshelf josefchladek.com
My Kingdom (signed)
by Txema Salvans
Photographs: Txema Salvans
Publisher: MACK
176 pages
Year: December 2017
ISBN: 978-1-910164-85-3
Comments: 17.5 cm x 23 cm, first edition, 176 pages, 65 tritone plates, OTA bound paperback with silkscreen printed cover and flaps, with stapled booklet and postcard
x+"My Kingdom" by Catalan photographer Txema Salvans offers a sharp-witted insight into contemporary Spanish society, and a wry comment on the climate of power in the artist’s home country. Salvans splices together blackand-white photographs of ordinary citizens enjoying the Mediterranean coast, with citations from the political rhetoric of former King of Spain, Juan Carlos I (1975–2015). Drenched in authority and affect, his speech conveys a King playing the role of a good-natured sovereign, the tender ruler of a democratic monarchy.
In Salvans’ subversive combination of image and text, the language acts like a socio-political filter, through which the gestures and emotions of the beach-goers are seen – the hopes, the indolence, and the aggression of people parading their own small sovereignties: the freedom to nap, eat, sunbathe, play, love and suffer, and display their human uniqueness. Power, as something embodied and enacted, permeates the king’s speech and the interactions of ordinary Spaniards, on the beaches and residential development of ‘real’ Spain.
Accompanying "My Kingdom" is a booklet containing extracts of fervent speeches by political figures including Thatcher, Mussolini, Churchill and Chaplin the Dictator, all proclaiming the authoritarian power of the state over people.
More books by Txema Salvans
-
The Waiting Game (signed - last copy)
by Txema Salvans
sold out -
My Kingdom
by Txema Salvans
Euro 38.50
more books tagged »black and white« | >> see all
-
In That Land of Perfect Day (signed)
by Brandon Thibodeaux
Euro 82 -
I will be wolf
by Bertien van Manen
Euro 39 -
The house of the seven women
by Tito Mouraz
sold out -
Path In Between (signed)
by Hajime Kimura
sold out -
At 3 a.m. (signed)
by Ivan Blazhev
Euro 25 -
Transparency is the new mystery (last copy)
by Mayumi Hosokura
Euro 38.50
more books tagged »Spain« | >> see all
-
Photobook Phenomenon (last copy)
by various photographers
sold out -
Lobismuller (signed - last copy)
by Laia Abril
sold out -
LAND (signed)
by Laura Van Severen
sold out -
Miserachs Barcelona
by Xavier Miserachs
sold out -
The Hunt
by Álvaro Laiz
sold out -
ANKUNFT BEI AUFBRUCH
by Sebastian Hesse, Andreas Rost & Christian Reister
sold out
more books tagged »Spanish« | >> see all
-
Moon Trail
by Alfonso Almendros
sold out -
Vida y milagros de Paula P. (signed - last copy)
by Cristina de Middel
Euro 165 -
One Eyed Ulysses (signed)
by JM Ramirez-Suassi
sold out -
Peter
by Carma Casulá
Euro 44 -
Party. Quotations from Chairman Mao TseTong (signed)
by Cristina de Middel
sold out -
SPBH Book Club Vol III (signed - last copy)
by Cristina de Middel
sold out
Random selection from the Virtual bookshelf josefchladek.com
My Kingdom (signed)
by Txema Salvans
Photographs: Txema Salvans
Publisher: MACK
176 pages
Year: December 2017
ISBN: 978-1-910164-85-3
Comments: 17.5 cm x 23 cm, first edition, 176 pages, 65 tritone plates, OTA bound paperback with silkscreen printed cover and flaps, with stapled booklet and postcard
x+"My Kingdom" by Catalan photographer Txema Salvans offers a sharp-witted insight into contemporary Spanish society, and a wry comment on the climate of power in the artist’s home country. Salvans splices together blackand-white photographs of ordinary citizens enjoying the Mediterranean coast, with citations from the political rhetoric of former King of Spain, Juan Carlos I (1975–2015). Drenched in authority and affect, his speech conveys a King playing the role of a good-natured sovereign, the tender ruler of a democratic monarchy.
In Salvans’ subversive combination of image and text, the language acts like a socio-political filter, through which the gestures and emotions of the beach-goers are seen – the hopes, the indolence, and the aggression of people parading their own small sovereignties: the freedom to nap, eat, sunbathe, play, love and suffer, and display their human uniqueness. Power, as something embodied and enacted, permeates the king’s speech and the interactions of ordinary Spaniards, on the beaches and residential development of ‘real’ Spain.
Accompanying "My Kingdom" is a booklet containing extracts of fervent speeches by political figures including Thatcher, Mussolini, Churchill and Chaplin the Dictator, all proclaiming the authoritarian power of the state over people.
More books by Txema Salvans
-
The Waiting Game (signed - last copy)
by Txema Salvans
sold out -
My Kingdom
by Txema Salvans
Euro 38.50
more books tagged »black and white« | >> see all
-
In That Land of Perfect Day (signed)
by Brandon Thibodeaux
Euro 82 -
I will be wolf
by Bertien van Manen
Euro 39 -
The house of the seven women
by Tito Mouraz
sold out -
Path In Between (signed)
by Hajime Kimura
sold out -
At 3 a.m. (signed)
by Ivan Blazhev
Euro 25 -
Transparency is the new mystery (last copy)
by Mayumi Hosokura
Euro 38.50
more books tagged »Spain« | >> see all
-
Photobook Phenomenon (last copy)
by various photographers
sold out -
Lobismuller (signed - last copy)
by Laia Abril
sold out -
LAND (signed)
by Laura Van Severen
sold out -
Miserachs Barcelona
by Xavier Miserachs
sold out -
The Hunt
by Álvaro Laiz
sold out -
ANKUNFT BEI AUFBRUCH
by Sebastian Hesse, Andreas Rost & Christian Reister
sold out
more books tagged »Spanish« | >> see all
-
Moon Trail
by Alfonso Almendros
sold out -
Vida y milagros de Paula P. (signed - last copy)
by Cristina de Middel
Euro 165 -
One Eyed Ulysses (signed)
by JM Ramirez-Suassi
sold out -
Peter
by Carma Casulá
Euro 44 -
Party. Quotations from Chairman Mao TseTong (signed)
by Cristina de Middel
sold out -
SPBH Book Club Vol III (signed - last copy)
by Cristina de Middel
sold out
Random selection from the Virtual bookshelf josefchladek.com