Founded in 1973, the Fundació Lluís Carulla works to promote the language, culture and values that define Catalan society, with the aim of strengthening a sense of belonging. The Fundació…
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It was in the 1970s that we first recognized the important role that photography had played as a means of expression and communication throughout history. Once again it is well…
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…
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…
The CIFB opened in October 1978, following the model of New York’s ICP. It was an advanced photography school with darkrooms, studios and classrooms, a library, a film theater, an…
SCAN is a photography festival held in the fall. It was founded in 2007 by the city of Tarragona. After the second edition in 2008 and the financial crisis, regional…
This exhibition is devoted to the history of amateur, proletarian documentary photography, a movement that dates back to March 1926 when the German communist magazine AIZ (Arbeiter-Illustrierte Zeitung) called on…