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La Fábrica has just launched one of its latest titles: The gaze of things. Japanese Photography in the context of provoke. This hardcover volume presents a tour to Japanese art, from the 1950s to present day, that focuses on photography and the artists that were part of the group Vivo (1957-1961) and the collective responsible for the journal Provoke. Provocative Materials for Thought in 1968, which only had three issues, but managed to change Japanese photography forever. The experimental way in which they showed the images as the result of an era that was marked by important political events, became

Eduardo Arroyo was a prominent representative of Narrative Figuration, a pictorial movement that has given impetus to European painting since the beginning of the 1960s. He was a painter, sculptor, writer, set designer, collector and reader, and he nourished his pictorial narrative from literary and autobiographical references, subtitling them with a ceaseless sense of irony. This exhibition, that is being held at the Villanueva Pavilion at the Royal Botanical Gardens (designed by the same architect as the nearby Prado Museum), is posthumous as the artist passed away on the 14 October 2018 in Madrid and ends the trilogy of exhibitions

Francisca Artigues, an elderly lady, embroiders table linen at her home in Majorca. The scene wouldn’t be anything out of the ordinary in an island where the art of brocade is preserved by women her age—despite being gradually set aside by younger generations—, were it not for the fact that the embroiderer is Miquel Barceló’s mother and the drawings she stitches have been made by her son. Miquel Barceló’s international recognition has certainly made each of his steps relevant, the last of which he has taken with his mother. Since 2010, Ms. Artigues has devoted hundreds of hours to embroidering

La Fábrica has recently published the book Moda. Spanish Fashion Through Photography. This book was the catalogue of one of the exhibitions included in PHotoESPAÑA 2018. Since the blend of art and fashion proposed by the pioneer Mariano Fortuny y Madrazo, Spanish fashion designers have stood out in the international scene partly due to their commitment to unique, ground-breaking ideas. This singularity has turned Spanish fashion into an extraordinary subject for photography. Richard Avedon and Irving Penn were attracted by the volumes and shapes of Balenciaga’s gowns, and Henry Clarke found Elio Berhanyer and Manuel Pertegaz’s designs to be the best accomplices

The Soviet Century—a publication to accompany the exhibition of the same name that takes place in the context of PHotoEspaña 2018—brings together more than 500 images belonging to the Archivo Lafuente, which document the history of Russia between 1917 and 1972 through the lens of the great masters of Russian photography. Photographers such as Aleksandr Rodchenko, Giorgi Zelma and El Lissitzky and many more, captured meetings, demonstrations, parades, factories, farms, strikes, wars… and they also made countless portraits of political leaders, artists, peasants and workers. Grouped into eight thematic sections—Constructing the New Man, Heralds of Tempests, The Collective Dream, Soviets