Agustí Centelles is a Catalan photographer commited since 1936 to the Spanish Republicans. The 4,000 pictures taken would inform the world of the horror of the fratricide combats. Spain is torn, and for the first time during a conflict, photography is going to play a predominant role. He was the first journalist to possess a Leica.
He worked for different newspapers (La Publicitat, L’Opinió, La Rambla, La Humanitat and la Vanguardia…) being the first one to cover the combat/battle of Barcelona where he took important risks to photograph the first images of the defeat of the military fascist. On Aragon’s front, he witnessed the bombing in Lerida and the fall of Teurel.
After the defeat in 1939, he took the path of exile and was committed in France in the refugee camp in Bram. Forced to leave France in 1944 and chased by the Gestapo, he entrusted his archives to a resident in Carcasonne. After Franco’s death in 1977, he recovered his negatives.
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Base sous-marine de Bordeaux
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