This book analyzes the life and work of Humberto Rivas (1937-2009), National Photography Award winner (1997) and one of the most outstanding photographers on the Spanish scene. Both the study of his artistic and professional beginnings in Buenos Aires in the 1960s, as well as the development of his activity from his arrival in Barcelona in 1976 until the 2000s and his important contribution to the consolidation of the artistic status of the photography in Spain.