Yesterday, Barcelona. Today, Madrid: in November 1957 Masats arrived with his photographs and a story on the Sanfermines, rented a room whose bathroom became his darkroom at night, and began working for La Gaceta Ilustrada, which sent him again and again to the south — and, in between, to the stars passing through the city.

With thanks to Jaime Fuster Pérez, whose doctoral thesis on Masats, El roble en el páramo (2007), tells this story.

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