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Colita was born on 24 August in 1940 in Barcelona. She studied in the Sagrado Corazón (Sacred Heart) until she was 17 and, after finished the pre-university, she transferred to Paris, where she studied French Civilisation in the Sorbona for a year.
After her return to Barcelona, she starts learning photography under the influence of Oriol Maspons, Julio Ubiña and Xavier Miserachs in the early '60's.
In 1962 Colita is involved in the production of the movie 'Los Tarantos' by Rovira Beleta and gets to know Carmen Amaya, one of the greatest flamenco dancers. A part from her friendship, she expressed an interest in flamenco.
In 1975 her book 'Luces y Sombras del Flamenco' (Lights and Shadows of Flamenco) offers an inside look into the flamenco scene at the end of the '60's and early '70's.
During the end of the Franco dictatorship, she got very involved with progressive, intellectual and artistic movements at the time of which resulted in numerous portraits for the press and all kinds of publications and expositions.
With the arrival of democracy she starts concentrating on portraying her environment, the city of Barcelona, its evolution and change, its people, social and cultural life.
With forty years dedicated to photography, her trajectory counts with more than forty expositions and nearly thirty photography-books published.
In 1998 she receives an award of artistic merit from the government of Barcelona, together with Oriol Maspons and Leopoldo Pomés.
Outstanding publications:
>'Luces y Sombras del Flamenco' (Lights and Shadows of Flamenco), Tusquets Editor, 1973 (text J. Caballero Bonald)
>'Una Tumba' (A Tomb), Tusquts Editor, 1973 (text Juan Benet)
>'La Antifemina' (The Anti-Feminist), Editora Nacional, 1977, Madrid (text Mª Aurelia Capmany)
>'Els Cementeris de Barcelona' (The Cemeteries of Barcelona), Ed. Edhasa, 1981 (text Carmen Riera)
>'Els Barcelonins' (The Barcelonans), Ed. 62, 1988, with Maspons, Miserachs (text Ana y Terenci Moix)
>'15 Dies d' Euforia' (12 Days of Euphoria - Barcelona Olympic Games) Ed. Ambit, 1992, with Maspons and Miserachs, (text Lluis Permanyer)
>'Carmen Amaya 1963', Ed. Focal 1999, with Julio Ubiña, (text A. Moix, F. Hidalgo)
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