Run To The Sun - Pamplona's Fiesta de San Fermin (Hardcover)

by Jim Hollander (Author)
Key Phrases: other runners, San Fermin, Conde de la Corte, Marqués de Domecq (more...)

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Review
Discover the richness of fiesta... by the tireless eye of a master photographer and an aficionado, a perfect combination. -- Inge Morath, Magnum Photographer, from book's foreword.

Product Description
A large format photographic book by award winning photojournalist Jim Hollander documenting the entire famed fiesta. The 315-page book contains over 260 photographs in color and a 30-page section of black and white photographs, taken over a twenty-five year period. There are comprehensive photographic essays on the running of the bulls shot on every section of the run, and a large essay on bullfighting. It also details the music, dancing and partying that has made Pamplona the premier fiesta in the world for adventure mixed with good times. Contributing texts are provided by Magnum photographer Inge Morath, American bull runner Joe Distler, bullfighter Francisco Rivera Ordonez, bull running expert Javier Solano, novelist David Pierce and writer Dennis Cole.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 315 pages
• Publisher: Masterarts Pr Llc; 2nd edition (June 25, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0972077804
• ISBN-13: 978-0972077804
• Product Dimensions: 12.8 x 9.7 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #378,938 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Magical Memoir Of A True Artist, October 23, 2002

By	F Ray Mouton Jr (New Orleans, Louisiana United States) - See all my reviews

Pamplona has many extraordiany photographers who have documented Fiesta de San Fermin from the first days of photography, and a number of gifted foreigners, most notably Igne Morath, a founder of the famed Magnum Agency in Paris, have done excellent photographic essays of Sanfermines. That Igne Morath praised this book is all anyone need know to judge its artistic value.

No photographer in the history of fiesta has worked longer, harder and brought more talent to bear on capturing the essence of the celebration. By the time Jim Hollander begin to photograph fiesta, he was already a veteran of many years. His knowledge, deep understanding, and love of all aspects of the fiesta, together with his tireless dedication and devotion, make this volume more the memoir of an artist than just a beautiful photographic essay. In that sense, this is a historic work.

One will not find as extensive a collection of fiesta photographs anywhere, nor will one find a more artistic array of Pamplona images anywhere. This book is sui generis, one of a kind, and well worth its cost, for one needs to view this not as the purchase of a book, but rather as the acquisition of a fabulous art collection.

The essay of Matador Franciso Rivera Ordonez is a very rare thing for any reader to encounter (Matadors rarely write this way about themselves and their work) and Ordonez's writing is as articulate and illuminating as is the prose of veteran American runner Joe Distler and Candadian David Pierce, a colorful character who is presented in both his prose and Hollander's photographs.

There will not be another book like this one because there will never be another photographer who will devote so much of his professional life and talent to documenting Fiesta de San Fermin.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars CAPTURING THE MYTH, MERRIMENT AND MADNESS, September 16, 2004

By	Robert F. Burgess (North Florida) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

The finest collection of photographs ever put together around the Pamplona Fiesta. My first was in 1959 when I accidentally met Ernest Hemingway. I had just backpacked through Tunisia to find a German mountain fortress that had stopped the Allies during WW2. Hemingway knew about it and invited me to join his group. Many years after his death I wrote of that period and all that followed in "Hemingway's Paris and Pamplona, Then and Now."

No other photobook has so dramatically pictured all of the drama that brought Hemingway back to Pamplona time and again to the very end. The essence of why it did is captured in the fine photographs on these pages.

Seeing this collection for himself, Hem would have shouted OLÉ!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Brings the Running of the Bulls to life, October 12, 2002

By	Charles A Leocha (Boston, MA USA) - See all my reviews

I have been going to Pamplona's Running of the Bulls for more than a quarter century. This compilation of dramatic photos is worth its weight in gold. It captures the spirit of the fiesta and will bring back fond memories of the wild days and nights in Pamplona during the fiesta for anyone who has had the good fortune of being there.
There is far more to the Fiesta of San Fermin than simply the Running of the Bulls, though the run gets all the publicity. Jim Hollander's book lets readers savor the insider nuances of this fiesta as well as sense the adrenaline-charged excitement of the bulls thundering across the cobblestone streets.
If you have been to Pamplona for the fiesta, this book is the next best thing to having the opportunity to take a trip back.
Viva San Fermin! Gora San Fermin!