Antoni Bernad. From 1960 to 2010

A memoir created in pictures: over two hundred photos linked and underpinned not in chronological order but shown in a cinematographic sequence and rhythm. As well as the photos, the author includes his memories and the experiences he gained when he took them, without boasting or telling unlikely stories. A book open in all directions, unprejudiced and with no other aim than to capture life itself.

Antoni Bernad began to work as a graphic artist when he was fifteen but he soon realised that his world was made of images and without knowing how to swim, he launched himself into the deep end hoping that his passion would serve as a lifebelt. This passion and a stubborn will have led him to be now recognised as one of the great photographers. People such as Dalí, Paloma Picasso, Horst, David Hockney, Tàpies, Català Roca, Manolo Blahnik, Joan Miró, Mercè Rodoreda or Ryszard Kapuscinski have posed in front of his camera. In his portraits he always strives to reach the persons soul and reflect their most intimate emotions.

Now that the abuse of imagery has become a burden, this book allows us to judge Bernads work with perspective and to underline its worth: authenticity, without sliding into sensationalist artifice or fleeting fashions. It is the work, in short, of a contemporary classic.

With texts by Antoni Llena and Josep Casamartina i Parassols