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Crime scenes: landscape, memory and atrocity in Jorge Barbi’s El Final, Aquí

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posted on 2023-06-09, 19:01 authored by Thomas AustinThomas Austin
Jorge Barbi’s book El Final, Aquí (The End, Here) is a collection of 60 beautifully composed, predominantly rural and always uninhabited landscapes taken throughout Spain. All the images share a common secret: these remote locations are crime scenes, out of the way places where Republicans were executed by Francoists during or after the Spanish Civil War. Barbi states: ‘Places are not witnesses of anything, places do not see us; we recreate them [..] common places where apparently nothing ever happened, until the invisible memory they contain fills them with uniqueness.’ The function of his photographs in El Final, Aquí is to precipitate such a shift, to actively recreate overlooked places as abiding sites of memory.

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  • Published

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  • Accepted version

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Photography and Culture

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1751-4517

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Taylor & Francis

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  • Media and Film Publications

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  • Yes

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Legacy Posted Date

2019-09-17

First Open Access (FOA) Date

2023-02-07

First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date

2019-09-16

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