Guided tour

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

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