Xavier Ribas - Photographer

		Xavier Ribas
		Publications Some publications are available. Most can be ordered from art book shops or directly from publishers. Alternatively you may try links listed.
		XAVIER RIBAS Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca 1998. ISBN 84-7481-988-1 Texts by Xavier Ribas and Ramón Esparza. Spanish and English. 65 pages (soft bound). If you take a stroll one sunny Sunday morning through the peripheries of Barcelona you’ll come across a strange landscape. Between the motorways and housing blocks, the industrial states, the commercial centres and sports complexes; between the nature parks and the theme parks, at the edge of all this contemporary urbanization, you will find the marginal areas where folk flock together every weekend to spend their free time. The question is: Why do people turn these residual spaces into the centre of their leisure activity? (Extract from the accompanying text by Xavier Ribas) Download PDF complete text English version Download PDF complete text Spanish version
	Order directly from publisher: Universidad de salamanca (Spain): Tel +34 923 294480 / accult@usal.es Alternatively from: www.photoeye.com www.lacentral.com

		SALAMANCA UN PROYECTO FOTOGRÁFICO Consorcio Salamanca 2002, Salamanca 2002. ISBN: 84-95719-07-X Text by Ramón Esparza. Spanish and English. 149 pages (soft bound). Exhibition catalogue of a photographic commission from the European City of Culture Salamanca 2002. Works by Lynne Cohen, Michael Danner, Candida Höfer, Valérie Juve, Humberto Rivas and Xavier Ribas
	This book can be ordered directly from the publisher: www.salamancaciudaddecultura.org Domus Artium 2002, Salamanca (Spain): Tel +34 923 184916

		BLINK! 100 PHOTOGRAPHERS 10 CURATORS. 10 WRITERS Phaidon Press, London 2002. ISBN: 0-7148-4199-4 English. 440 pages (hard bound). "Blink is the latest entry in Phaidon's ambitious series of contemporary art survey books, and the first devoted to photography. It follows two fat volumes on art, Cream (1998) and Fresh Cream (2000), and one, 10x10 (2000), on architecture, all of which have adapted the same shrewdly straightforward format: Each of 10 curators is invited to choose 10 artists who have come to attention or broken new ground within five years of the book's publication" Vince Aletti: 100 Photographers Share a Virtual Exhibition Space. A Biennial in a Book. The Village Voice, June 14th 2002. http://www.villagevoice.com The book also contains texts by the ten curators and ten writers. Text on Xavier Ribas by Joan Fontcuberta.
	This book can be ordered directly from Phaidon: www.phaidon.com Alternatively from: www.schaden.com

		DES ESPÈCES d’ESPACES VOX/Tinglado 2 Centre d’Art Contemporani, Tarragona, 2003. ISBN 2-9801608-9-X Texts by Chanrtal Grande and Marie-Josée Jean. French/Catalan/English. 86 pages (soft bound). Catalogue of the exhibition at the Space VOX (Montreal) and Tinglado 2 (Tarragona) curated by Chantal Grande and Marie-Josée Jean. Artists include: Claire Savoie, Xavier Ribas, Perejaume, Alain Paiement, Anna Ferrer, Jordi Colomer, Nicolas Baier and Jocelyne Alloucherie.
	http://www.voxphoto.com

		SANCTUARY Editorial Gustavo Gili, Barcelona, 2005. ISBN 84-252-2040-8 Text by Stephen Barber. English/Spanish. 136 pages (hard bound). At the periphery, the city illuminates itself, negatively. Every image seized there, at the precipice where the urban compulsively extinguishes itself, is a story so concertinaed by sensation or absence that it fixes the eye profoundly into that image. Human life has been swept away, with magisterial cruelty or nonchalance, but the emanation projected by the empty zones of streets, highways, buildings, pivots on a kind of neural inkling within the membranes of the eye, an intimation of vision, that something may be resuscitated or restituted from the detritus that forms that void. In Europe, from Marseilles, to Berlin, to Rome, to London, the cities are engulfed: rendered into negligible corporate outposts, all images relentlessly pitted-out - except on their resistant peripheries. Europe survives as a caustic residue on those peripheries. (Extract from the accompanying text by Stephen Barber) The book contains the following series: Flowers (1998-2000), Rooms (1997-2000), Sanctuary (2002), Thresholds (2001-2002), Stones (2000), Fires (2002), plus a selection of pictures from London, Marseille, Berlin and Rome. Download PDF complete text English version Download PDF complete text Spanish version
	http://www.ggili.com http://www.lacentral.com

		DEL PAISAJE RECIENTE [De la imagen al territorio] Fundación ICO, Madrid, 2006. ISBN 13:978-84-934684-2-2 Texts by Horacio Fernández and Javier Chavarría. Includes a selection of historical and contemporary texts concerning the landscape (some texts are edited versions. Selection by Catarina Pestana). Spanish. 232 pages (soft bound). This book is a catalogue of the exhibition at the Fundación ICO produced in collaboration with PhotoEspaña 2006. Artists include: Jesús Abad, Nobuo Asada, Uta Barth, Thomas Joshua Cooper, Angela Detanico & Rafael Laín, Dan Graham, Maiko Haruki, Tomoki Imai, Xavier Ribas, Misha de Ridder, Lars Tunbjörg and Tomoko Yoneda.
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