Photographer Ricardo Sanchez's vivid artworks and text reflect this exquisite pas de deux, where the bull and the bullfighter trace the lines and forms of their existence with each pass. An intersection of tradition, culture, art, and nature; this book visually demonstrates that a bullfight is a ballet's pas de deux and offers a different view on what is sometimes considered a brutal sport.
With an essay from Spain's leading authority and most respected bullfighting critic and an excerpt from Hemmingway's Death in the Afternoon, the work in Passes is poised to join that of legendary artists such as Francisco de Goya and ...