Libros que son fotos, fotos que son libros

This title is the name of the exhibition on the Centro de Documentación y Biblioteca del Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (The Archive and Library center from the National Art Museum Queen Sofía). The exhibition is curated by Horacio Fernández  and coordinated by Alicia Martínez.

The exhibition shows about 150 photobooks published in Spain since 2000, specially the last 4 years. The ones selected for this special ocasion are just a small part of the original and queryable archive of the Museum Library, with more than 1000 photobooks, specially from Spain and Latin Amèrica.

Federico Clavarino. Ukraina Pasport. Fiesta Ediciones / Cuadernos de la Kursala 26, 2011

Part of the exhibition shows the donation of the large photobook collection from Bookip (Book in porgress) to the museum. Now Dalpine photobooks.

Aleix Plademunt. Almost there. MACK / Ca l'Isidret Edicions, 2013

The exhibition will end on September 2014, this means there is a lot of time to visit this incredible archive of photobooks. You will find "Stories" from Fábio M. Roque published by Bad Weather and also, “Almost there” from Aleix Plademunt and published by Ca l’Isidret Edicions this year.