Can the covers of magazines and publications explain a world? A time? A culture? A country? By visiting libraries, archives and newspaper archives we can find out many things about our past, reconstruct history, our history. In times,...
moreCan the covers of magazines and publications explain a world? A time? A culture? A country? By visiting libraries, archives and newspaper archives we can find out many things about our past, reconstruct history, our history. In times, ours, when we are subject to the dominance of the image through screens and devices of all kinds, this visual essay tries to tell a story from the covers, headers, illustrations and photographs of some of the magazines and publications that defined a specific period in the history of Spain, which has come to be called transition. For me, a history of (counter)culture, with two notable examples, Star and Ajoblanco. Star (1974-1980) was a personal project of Juan José Fernández that began its journey as a comix magazine-85% of the content was dedicated to this-and it ended up being a countercultural magazine that, in its last issue, number 57, dedicated only 20% of its content to comix. With a punk and apolitical spirit, the authentic underground magazine of the counterculture, with an impact in the main cities of the country.
