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La Fábrica launches The Mechanical Art  by Andy Warhol (Pittsburgh, 1928) who is without a doubt one of the most relevant and best-known artists of the 20th century. This volume, which accompanies the exhibition of the same name in Barcelona, Madrid and Málaga, highlights how Andy Warhol captured the cult of merchandise from industrial inventions of the 19th century. Always attentive to technical and industrial breakthroughs, Warhol used all types of techniques and machinery, from silk-screen printing to video recorders, with production patterns that he himself defined as “pertaining to an assembly line”. This apparently impersonal mechanical art, cynically rejects any intentional spiritual

La Fábrica and Cristina de Middle, the award-winning Spanish photographer, presents her striking latest project, The Perfect Man. With Chaplin’s film Modern Times as a starting point for the book’s narrative structure, De Middel reflects on the peculiar understanding of masculinity in India, through the relationships between man, machine and work. In India, industrial revolution never really started and never really ended, but western standards,which defined this new perfect working man, were imposed and accepted in a society that already had a very elitist cultural structure. The results were confusing. De Middel tells the story of Doctor Ashok Aswani, who

La Fábrica launches Surreal Lovers: Eight Women Integral to the Life of Max Ernst by Margaret Hooks, an Irish writer who has written extensively on the life and work of artists among them Tina Modotti, Frida Kahlo, Leonora Carrington, Edward Weston, Max Ernst and Edward James. Her books include the award-winning biography Tina Modotti: Photographer & Revolutionary also published by La Fabrica, Frida Kahlo: Portraits of an Icon and Surreal Eden: Edward James & Las Pozas. Her writing has appeared in ARTnews, BOMB, Afterimage, Vogue, Aperture, Elle, The Guardian and The Observer Magazine. Beginning in Cologne at the outbreak of war in 1914 and the eruption of Dada,

La Fábrica presents Tina Modotti. Photographer and Revolutionary, a book by Irish author Margaret Hooks, who immerses us in the life and work of this woman who laid the foundations of contemporary photography.   Actress during Hollywood’s Golden Age, political activist, favorite model of Edward Weston… There are many facets to Tina Modotti’s life (Udine, Italy, 17 August, 1896 – Mexico City, 5 January 1942), but without a doubt the most prominent is photography; although she only produced some 400 photographs, Tina Modotti remains a leading figure in twentieth-century photography. Hooks draws a full portrait of Tina Modotti, whose legendary

  Slant Rhymes, published by la Fábrica, is a unique book in which the Magnum photographer Alex Webb ans his wife, the poet and photographer, Rebecca Norris Webb, compone a exquisite photographic love poem, that covers more than 30 years of work, communication, friendship and later marriage between them. This project gathers images taken in15 different countries which gain their full meaning thanks to the photographic dialogue forged between them.   This is the spirit underlying these Slant Rhymes, in which the 82 images composing the book appear facing each other on each page, establishing not only a visual dialogue but

La Fábrica launches The Bolshoi an amazing book that includes a 110 photographs taken by the Russian photographer Sasha Gusov.  The 110 black-and-white photographs making up the volume are accompanied by an introduction by film director Andrei Konchalovsky This work of art offers a completely unknown view of one of the oldest, most prestigious dance companies in the world. The book includes, among others: rehearsals, waiting in the wings to go onstage, dancers in their dressing rooms preparing to perform, and great moments in the ballet’s visits to London between 1993 and 2016. According to Andrei Navrozov: » Gusov’s photographs are lightning

La Fabrica and Guggenheim Museum Bilbao publishs Bill Viola, the first monograph to chart the artist´s career in full, form his education in Syracuse, New York, to the inauguration in 2014 of Martyrs ( Earth, Aire, Fire, Water) a work specially commissioned for St Paul´s Cathedral in London. This publication completes the exhibition about the artistic evolution of Bill Viola that Guggenheim Museum Bilbao will host untill November 9th. This book outlines the key visual, literary and spiritual influences on his artistic practice, as well as his changing approach to the moving image in response to advances in technology. Woven into

PHotoEspaña 2017 hosts at CentroCentro the major work by the Swedish artist Anders Petersen, one of the most noteworthy European photographers. The exhibition includes over 300 photographs relive the nights of this Hamburg café between 1968 and 1970, with its regulars, prostitutes, pimps, drag queens and beggars Besides this exhibition shows for the first time previously unseen works and documentary material from Petersen’s personal archive that allow a never before seen approach to his working method. Between 1968 and 1970 Anders Petersen portrayed the regulars to the Café Lehmitz with great humanity and closeness, photographs «made with the heart», as

Eduardo Arroyo is an artist who collects photographs in an almost compulsive way. His archive includes thousands of photographs: cut out of magazines and newspapers, bought at street markets, found in old photograph albums … Images taken by famous authors, reporters from press agencies, photographic studios, and also by anonymous photographers. Hop-hopping brings together some of these photographs, comprising a volume that is an artwork itself. Images from all periods and genres that, nevertheless, have something in common: In all of them there are feet that have lost — or are just about to loose — contact with the ground.