In 1957, a few years after Henri Cartier-Bresson photographed the San Fermín festival in Pamplona, ​​Ramón Masats arrived at the celebration with a Leica and a Pentax and captured that unique universe with a vision that emphasized severe and decisive composition. A historic work that marked a milestone in Spanish photography.
 
Now, half a century later, the author reunites with another great photographer and photo editor, Chema Conesa, to delve into those archives, rescue previously unpublished images, and piece together a narrative that, like all great stories, has stood the test of time.
 
The previously unpublished images included in this edition have been personally selected by Ramón Masats himself, accompanied by the professionalism of photo editor and photographer Chema Conesa. The final composition represents the unfolding of the San Fermín festival, and the sequential order of the snapshots reflects the imprint of the photographer, who also made television documentaries, a task already rooted in his photographic work.
 
The book concludes with a text published in 1927 by Ernest Hemingway. Bulls, white and red combined with noise, music, folklore, crowds... The same thing Masats experienced during the months of July 1957 and 1960, when he was collecting snapshots.
 
Ramón Masats (Caldes de Montbui, Barcelona, ​​1931). He fell into photography by mistake. A perfect mistake that resulted in him winning a camera in a raffle during his military service. His beginnings began in 1955 when he joined the Photographic Society of Catalonia, keen to disguise the reality of Spain at that time. Precisely to oppose this spirit, Masats distanced himself from photography and founded the Afal group with other like-minded photographers.
 
His work has been recognized with the 2001 Bartolomé Ros Prize from PHotoEspaña and the 2002 Community of Madrid Photography Award for his work La memoriatruye (The Constructed Memory). In 2003, the Instituto Cervantes organized the exhibition TAL CUAL (Total Quantity), and in 2004, the Ministry of Culture awarded him the National Photography Award, culminating a professional career marked by boldness and the pursuit of freedom of expression in his work as a reporter for half a century. In 2005, he participated in the Spanish Pavilion at Expo 2005, held in Aichi, Japan, where the group exhibition Diez miradas (Ten Views) was presented. In 2006, he published Ciudad antigua de Cuenca (Ancient City of Cuenca) and Contactos (Contacts). He also exhibited his work at the Instituto Cervantes in Tunis, Stockholm, Munich, and Bordeaux, and in the Neorealism exhibition at the MNAC (National Museum of Contemporary Art) in Barcelona. A year later, in 2007, he exhibited Cuenca en la mirada (Cuenca in the Gaze) in Cuenca, and the Blanca Berlín Gallery in Madrid exhibited an exhibition entitled Ramón Masats.