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Crime scenes: landscape, memory and atrocity in Jorge Barbi’s El Final, Aquí
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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Photography and CultureISSN
1751-4517Publisher
Taylor & FrancisExternal DOI
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2019-09-17First Open Access (FOA) Date
2023-02-07First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date
2019-09-16Usage metrics
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