Guided tour
50 photographs with history takes a look at the last 80 years of this discipline in Spain through its key participants: 50 images. Each of the selected photographs reflects an era, a way of understanding photography and, of course, its corresponding social and human burden.
Our visual journey will begin with the outbreak of the Civil War, when photojournalists such as Agustí Centelles and Martín Santos Yubero became the eyes and chroniclers of the conflict. In the post-war period and the years that followed, Ricard Terré, Ramón Masats or Joan Colom made a name for themselves as they began using photography in a wide variety of ways: through documentary photography, satirical portraits, photojournalism and street photography. The exhibition will then take us through a period in Spain that marked a necessary evolution in visual language as well: the Spanish Transition.
This was a time when photography started being used in different ways and new voices emerged —Alberto García-Alix, Chema Madoz, Pablo Juliá and Marisa Flórez, among others— with new discourses that were necessary for a society in full effervescence. We will then explore the boom in popularity of documentary photography and the lenses of Spanish authors who gazed abroad, which began in the 1990s and still continues today thanks to key authors such as Cristina García Rodero, Navia, Isabel Muñoz and Sandra Balsells. We cannot leave out the gazes of those who are now shaping the current photographic landscape of our country. A narrative wealth that is the result of our history and that we now invite you to discover with 50 photographs which tell us fifty different stories.
The selection of photographers includes 17 National Photography Award winners and 2 National Fine Art Photography Award winners.
Commissioners: José María Díaz-Maroto | Gonzalo Revidiego
01
Francesc Català-Roca
Ladies Walking along the Gran Vía, 1952
02
Martín Santos Yubero
A street box photographer takes a picture of a group of soldiers during the Spanish Civil War, 1937
03
Agustí Centelles
Assault Guards at Carrer de la Diputació, 1936
04
Virxilio Vieitez
Dorotea do Cara, 1960
05
Oriol Maspons
The first bikini in Ibiza, 1953
06
Carlos Pérez Siquier
La niña blanca, 1958
07
Joan Colom
“The streets” series, 1958
08
Enrique Meneses
Fidel Castro, 1958
09
Joana Biarnés
Paul McCartney, 1965
10
Ricard Terré
Sant Boi de Llobregat, 1958
11
Rafael Sanz Lobato
The Boy with the Drum, 1980
12
Nicolás Muller
Worker at the Drainage of the Tisza River, 1937
13
Gabriel Cualladó
Clemente and his Tricycle, 1958
14
César Lucas
Che Guevara in Madrid, 1959
15
Ramón Masats
Seminarians playing football, 1959
16
Benito Román
Pasacalles en Tarifa, 1979
17
Gerardo Vielba
Florist in Saint-Lazare, 1962
18
Fernando Maquieira
Worker at Salinas Grandes, (2006)
19
Pablo Pérez-Mínguez
Torero Cordero, 1972
20
Alberto García-Álix
Self-Portrait with Wounded Body, 1981
21
Gervasio Sánchez
Sofia and Alia, 2007
22
Juan Manuel Castro Prieto
Wedding in Taquile, 2000
23
Marisa Florez
Dolores Ibárruri, La Pasionaria, and Rafael Alberti, 1977
24
Toni Catany
Escariano, 2007
25
Joan Fontcuberta
Sputnik, 1997
26
Luis Castelo
Ajaia ajaja, 2007
27
Chema Madoz
S/T, 1985
28
Alberto Schommer
Levitation of the Infanta, 2001
29
Chema Conesa
Los Thyssen, 1989
30
Juan Manuel Díaz Burgos
El niño de la maleta, 1993
31
Ángel Marcos
The Black Sea 11, 2006
32
Isabel Muñoz
Khmer dance, 1996
33
José María Mellado
Blue Chevy and Dancing Couple, 2006
34
Luis Baylón
Madrid, anonymous, june 1990 / six months later, december 1990, 1990
35
Sandra Balsells
Amra Efica, 1993
36
Ouka Leele
Rapelle-toi, Bárbara, 1987
37
Cristina De Middel
Iko Iko, Afronauts Series, 2011
38
Ricardo Cases
Dove to the skies, 2010
39
Rafael Navarro
Diptych #14, 1978
40
Pablo Juliá
Fraga's Vote, 1982
41
Pierre Gonnord
Antonio, 2004
42
Xurxo Lobato
Prestige, 2002
43
Eduardo Nave
4:50 pm. July 12, 1997, 2011
44
Miguel Trillo
An afternoon at the fair, 1995
45
Cristina García Rodero
18 months old, 1995
46
Elisa González Miralles
Wannabe, 2017
47
Sofía Moro
Shujaa Graham, 2009
48
Matías Costa
Cargo, 2007-2017
49
Sergio Belinchón
Goodbye friend, 2011
50
Navia
Caconda School, 1996