“Happiness isn’t forever. We were happy and we didn’t know it.”
– Alex Maspon on Ibiza in the 1980s
In these straightened times of polarised debate, herd mentality, religious fundamentalism and social conformity we need Oriol Maspons’ pictures of 1980s Ibiza.
The Spanish photographer’s portraits of Ibiza holidays in the ’80s takes us back to when we were hot on the beach and hotter on the dance floor of clubs like Pacha, Ku and Amnesia. Hair is whipped and highlighted by sea and Sun In; flesh is oiled and buttered in Ambre Solaire. G-stings are his ‘n’ hers.
Astronaut night at Ku, Privilege (1986)
A hidden spot behind Es Cavellet (1987) ibiza
Spanish photographer Oriol Maspons is known for his reportage, portraiture, fashion and advertising work in the 1950s and 60s. But from the late 1960s to the late 1980s he would holiday in Ibiza, where he took pictures for pleasure. His humorous and playful photographs of the island’s beachgoers and clubbers disclose the new attitudes to nudity, sexuality and freedom of expression in the post-Franco era
Pacha terrace (1985)
La Pantera Rosa (the Pink Panther) of Pink Panther Bar in Es Canar promoting a night out to sunbathers in Playa D’en Bossa (1976)
Amnesia
Astronaut night at Ku, Privilege (1986) ibiza
Ku
Sa Trinxa, Ses Salinas (1986)
Pacha terrace (1985)
Astronaut night at Ku, Privilege (1986)
Three doñas sitting on a bench in Vara de Rey, Ibiza Town (1975) Photograph- Oriol Maspons
Ses Salinas and Sa Trinxa (1982) ude
The staff of Ku take a dip at Salinas Beach after a night of partying at Privilege (1985
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