From memory to postmemory of the Spanish Civil War through the photobook: The generation of collective memory

This paper proposes an analysis of the photobooks published from 2019 onwards on the Spanish Civil War as a form of postmemory. That year El laberinto magico by Julian Baron, Flowers for Franco by Toni Amengual, War Edition by Roberto Aguirrezabala, and Cristos y anticristos by Javier Viver are published; in 2020, El paseo by David Garcia and Hombrecino by Susana Cabanero; and in 2021, Sota la llum de mar by Espe Pons. These photobooks inaugurate a specifically photographic form of postmemory, which I have called the generation of collective memory.