Ecos de la memoria / Echoes of Memory: Going Back to Where We Never Were: 25 Years Photobooks on the Spanish Civil War

The most comprehensive survey to date of contemporary photographic projects on the Spanish Civil War, bringing together more than 120 catalogs and photobooks Over the past 25 years, a new generation of photographers has given visual form to memories of the Spanish Civil War shaped by silence, distance and inherited trauma rather than direct experience. As grandchildren of those who lived through the conflict, their work emerges from family omissions, institutionalized amnesia and the absence of shared reference points. These photographs do not seek to reconstruct the past, but rather to address the present and reveal how unresolved histories continue to resonate today. This two-volume boxed publication presents the results of an extensive research and curatorial project dedicated to the recovery, cataloging, analysis and dissemination of photographic work on the Spanish Civil War published between 1999 and 2025. It draws from the 120 publications held by the Spanish Civil War Photographic Memory Archive, which has a particular focus on contemporary photobooks.