The Life and Death of the Fighting Bull — José Suárez & John Marks

Selected by our friends at CAREFULLY CURATED, presented in collaboration with Stop & Read.

José Suárez’s black-and-white photographs and John Marks’s text come together in The Life and Death of the Fighting Bull, a photographic account of the bull and the world of the bullring.

Published in New York by Putnam in 1968, this hardcover captures the movement, tension, and human encounters surrounding bullfighting. A period photobook for readers interested in documentary photography, Spanish cultural history, and the visual language of the 1960s.

• Photographs: José Suárez
• Text: John Marks
• Publisher: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, New York
• Publication date: 1968
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 127
• Illustrations: Black-and-white photographs
• Condition: Good