Books about Ibiza?

Tourist said:
was just thinking... how about a forum 20th anniversary compendium of all the best posts/photos, perhaps a few fave charts (tunes, restaurants, gigs, beaches..) polling the whole community? And packaged as a glossy coffee table book. There probably are high resolution pictures people could send in which you could then copyright with a credit & then maybe integrate with quoted excerpts (in different languages). It probably wouldn't require that much additional writing, maybe a foreword from some local big fish? Could be a money spinner if it was marketed with wider reach, rather than as a more restrictive forum project, perhaps as a historical 21st century piece charting how the island has evolved, without editorialising/judging too much.
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I like this idea
 
I was just reading this book while I was on the Island in May/June

Raoul Hausman
IBIZA
A forgotten island
Edited by Bernd Stiegler
Series: Konstanz University Press

Raoul Hausmann (1886–1971) was an Austrian artist and writer and one of the centralFigures of Dadaism. His experimental collages and texts are key works for theEuropean avantgarde.

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The dream of another life and writing.
Raoul Hausmann in Ibiza.
When Raoul Hausmann emigrated to Ibiza in the mid-1930s, the island was not only a refuge for numerous intellectuals, such as Walter Benjamin, but also a place where tradition and modernity crossed in a peculiar way. At that time, the island was far from being a tourist destination. Hausmann discovered his ethnographic streak here and documented the landscape and its inhabitants in texts and photographs. There lived just 30,000 inhabitants on the entire island, who pursued various activities. They were fishermen, farmers and craftsmen at the same time and set up their households accordingly. Everything had its place there: Form followed function here, too - only for hundreds of years.For Hausmann, Ibiza was a veritable discovery between archaism and avant-garde and thus became a projection screen for a different way of life and writing. Hausmann made extensive studies on the special Ibizan architecture, which was also discovered by Le Corbusier and Gropius as a prefiguration of classical modernism, worked on the history of the island, but also on archaeological finds and ethnographic peculiarities. He planned to make a book out of these works, which he also offered to several publishers. Nevertheless, this hybrid project between travel guide and ethnographic study remained unpublished and is now being edited for the first time using materials from the estate. The edition contains numerous photographs and sketches that Hausmann made especially for the planned publication.

Probably only available in german though
 
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