SPANISH LANDSCAPES

sapnish landscapes
12 photographs on baryta paper with embossed cockroaches
50 x 60 and 60 x 50 cm

It is a series of black and white photographs, taken and produced in the late 1960s by the company Paisajes Españoles, showing scenes of the first tourist developments on the Valencia coast.
Apart from the well-known connotations between photography and tourism, these images refer to the era of Spanish developmentalism, the beginning of the democratization of vacations and free time, and the beginning of unsustainable growth that we continue to suffer from today.
That boom economically underpinned the fascist regime, while at the same time introducing signs of openness that made it unsustainable.
This installation shows how these buildings became an obvious blight along the entire coastline of the peninsula.