Lobismuller
Laia Abril
RM
English
Hardcover
164 pages
202 x 270 mm
2017
ISBN 9788416282647
Lobismuller tells the story of Manuel Blanco Romasanta, Spain’s bloodiest and most enigmatic serial killer, from a female perspective. Manuel was born Manuela and originally believed to be a woman: according to modern forensic theories, he (or she) may have lived with a rare syndrome of intersexuality.
Blanco Romasanta was dubbed the “Soapmaker,” owing to his habit of using the fat of victims to produce high-quality soap. Although confessing to nine of the seventeen murders now attributed to him, Blanco Romasanta pleaded not guilty, declaring himself the victim of a curse that had transformed him into a wolf…
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About the Artist
based artist working with photography, text, video and sound. After graduating from college with a degree in Journalism she moved to New York to focus on photography where she decided to start telling intimate stories that raise uneasy and hidden realities related with sexuality, eating disorders and gender equality. In 2009, she enrolled the artist residency at FABRICA, the Benetton Research Centre in Treviso, where she worked as a researcher, photo editor and staff photographer at Colors Magazine for 5 years.
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About the Publisher
RM is an independent, prestigious publisher focusing primarily on photography and contemporary art, while also maintaining a curated catalogue of Latin American literary classics.
RM currently has offices in Spain and Mexico and with more than 500 titles by or about writers and artists of international stature such as Frida Kahlo, Leonora Carrington, Graciela Iturbide, Saul Leiter, Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Martin Parr, Julio Cortázar, Daido Moriyama, Luis Barragán, Diego Rivera, Masao Yamamoto, Juan Rulfo, Jeff Wall and Pablo Ortiz Monasterio among others. RM’s work aims to enhance the trends and legacy of visual culture in Latin America, maintaining a line of work of the highest standards which reflects on the history and origins of the visual image.
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