"Carmen Amaya. 1963".

Carmen Amaya. Her Dancing.

" Carmen Amaya. 1963", 100 pages of texts and photographs devoted to the last months in the life of the dancer Carmen Amaya, a portrait of a year of art and dancing surrounded by the health problems of the artist.

The book is divided in four parts " Taranta, Agosto, Luto y Ausencia" (Taranta, -the name of a "palo" of style of flamenco songs- , August, Mourning and Absence).

Colita, Photographer, born in Barcelona, she first meets Carmen Amaya during the filming of the movie de "Los Tarantos", when Colita is working in her first professional job as a photographer. Colita has published more than 20 books of photography.

Julio Ubiña, photographer born in Santander, Spain, spent most of his professional career in Barcelona. His photographs illustrated Cela's book "El toreo de salón" and also one of the editions of Lorca's "Poeta en Nueva York".

Francisco Hidalgo, born in Posadas (Córdoba), lives since 1974 in Cornellá de Llobregat

(Barcelona) where, besides his didactic labors, has worked in many different cultural projects, a well known flamencologist, has conducted Flamenco seminars and is the director of the "Festival Flamenco de Cornellá ". Francisco is the author of books about such flamenco artists as Carmen Amaya and Fosforito.

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