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Although Edward Steichen exhibited some of Saul Leiter’s color photographs at the Museum of Modern Art in 1953, for forty years afterwards they remained virtually unknown to the art world.…
Following Hope! in 2010 and Big Brother, l’artiste face aux tyrans in 2011, the third contemporary art exhibition by curator Ashok Adicéam, Dinard, l’Amour Atomique, incorporates the French city of…
It was in 1840 that the first work of photography was published in Spain: the Panorama óptico-artístico de las Islas Baleares with 39 lithographs produced from daguerreotypes by Francisco Muntaner.…
Casademont (1928-1994) was a key figure in Spanish visual culture during the postwar period. As for photography, he served as director of the Aixelá de Barcelone and the magazine Imagen…
Memory does not fall under the study of history. Whoever remembers is dealing with a selective, random, emotional and only somewhat factual memory. Only certain memories resurface, while others have…
Ortiz Echagüe (Guadalajara, 1868 – Madrid, 1980) is one of the most outstanding figures in 20th-century photography in Barcelona and a key artist with a unique style of work. His…
Joaquim Gomis i Serdañons (Barcelona, 1902-1991) was a man of many talents: promoter of the arts, businessman, art collector, photographer and the first president of the Fundació Joan Miró. For…
Francisco Ontañón (Barcelona, 1930 - Madrid, 2008), a very well known Spanish photographer of the 50's and 60's, representative of the Spanish neo-realism is exhibiting at Galería Valid Foto BCN…