POPULAR CULTURE PHOTOGRAPHY FROM THE SPANISH DEMOCRATIC TRANSITION (1975-1990)

Democratic transition produced in Spain an important change that had a deep impact on the manifestations of popular culture and, consequently, altered the ways of looking and, therefore, taking photographs of rituals and traditions. This, therefore, had implications for a diversity of photographs and publications with images in later decades. In this essay we analyse them, taking as a starting point the catalogs of the National Photographic Competition on Art and Popular Traditions, which is the first institutional competition open to the public, within a context of democracy and participation. Later, we will have a look at the most important photographers and works of that moment, focusing on some author's photographic books. Closely related to the emergence of cultural tourism is the appearance of the informative photographs of the first travel guides specifically focused on festivals and popular traditions, which we analyze afterwards. Finally, in order to have an approach to the academic field we will analyse some photographs of several anthropology journals.