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Colita
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Also known as Isabel Steva i Hernández, Isabel Steva i Hernandez

Isabel Steva i Hernández (24 August 1940 – 31 December 2023), whose pseudonym was Colita, was a Spanish photographer. She trained with Xavier Miserachs i Ribalta, and began her professional career in 1961 as a laboratory technician and stylist for Miserachs.

Person · Open Library

Works
7

Top works

  • Colita fotografía, Barcelona
  • Carmen Amaya, 1963
  • Cornellà, una ciutat
  • El Baix Llobregat
  • Els cementiris de Barcelona

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Female
Origin
Spain
Active from
1940

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
8
Total plays
22

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Key facts

Artist.name
Colita
Artist.native_name
Isabel Steva i Hernández
Artist.native_name_lang
Catalan
Artist.image
Colita en el archivo.jpg
Artist.caption
Colita at the archive, 2021
Artist.birth_name
Isabel Steva Hernández
Artist.birth_place
Barcelona, Spain
Artist.death_place
Barcelona, Spain
Artist.field
Photography
Artist.movement
Gauche divine
Artist.awards
Creu de Sant Jordi (2004)

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Works in European collections

4 objects attributed to Colita, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

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Encyclopedic overview

8 sections
Contents
  • Biography
  • Selected works
  • Important exhibitions
  • Prizes and accolades
  • Colita Collection
  • Legacy
  • References
  • External links

Isabel Steva i Hernández (24 August 1940 – 31 December 2023), whose pseudonym was Colita, was a Spanish photographer. She trained with Xavier Miserachs i Ribalta, and began her professional career in 1961 as a laboratory technician and stylist for Miserachs.

Initially, she demonstrated great interest in dance photography—almost always flamenco music—and later she also specialized in portraits and journalistic photography. She had numerous exhibitions with photographs of Catalan artists and singers from the Nova Cançó era to the present. She published many books.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Colita” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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