Baylon

"En Plata" is a tribute of Luis Baylon to more than thirty years walking the streets of his beloved Madrid, but with a different perspective, unpublished, and also a tribute to the negative. This book presents in a fast\-paced sequence of images a tour of the most real Madrid and that only someone with an extraordinary knowledge of the city and years of work can capture. Baylon has made up this sequence from images taken from 1984 to 2017. "Baylon: Madrid en Plata" gathers a selection of black-and-white works by the well-known photographer of Madrid Luis Baylon. The images ―a tribute to the streets of Madrid and its people― are drawn from thirty years of Baylon's career. The novel focus is on the combination of sequence and chance, and on the association of ideas the two approaches provoke. What is here proposed is not the classic method of presenting isolated images which, in retrospect, enter into dialogue with each other, but rather an attempt to let the notion of sequence speak for itself, taking groups of two or three photographs that happen to come together on the roll and thus letting chance express itself on its own, revealing its own cadence, that sense of direction it has maintained without our realizing it. The photographer has decided to publish these sequences of a subjective vision of Madrid from 1984 to 2017 because he perceives them as representing a finished process, a reflection on a city that has changed no less than the way it is captured here: presented as negatives whose very days are numbered.