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The Encyclopedia of Photography’s Art and History

    Streetwalkers, Second-Tier Tarts, and Fallen Women

    • Joan Colom (1921-2017)

    Candid documentation of Barcelona’s marginalized sex workers in the late 1950s and early 1960s, presented through high-contrast black-and-white photography with distinctive grain.

    Streetwalkers, Second-Tier Tarts, and Fallen Women

    • Joan Colom (1921-2017)

    Candid documentation of Barcelona’s marginalized sex workers in the late 1950s and early 1960s, presented through high-contrast black-and-white photography with distinctive grain.

    Image courtesy of Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía.
    Image courtesy of Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía.
    Image courtesy of Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía.
    Image courtesy of Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía.
    Image courtesy of Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía.
    Image courtesy of Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía.

    Books

    Joan Colom: Raval

    (Steidl, 2006)

    Joan Colom: I Work the Street, Photographs 1957-2010

    (La Fábrica, 2014)

    Joan Colom: Fotografías de Barcelona

    (Lunwerg Editores, 2007)

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