• Thursday 15th September 2016
18:00 - Presentation
Lluís Calvo, scientific-cultural director of the Residence for Researchers CSIC-Generalitat of Catalonia.
18:15 - Presentation of the speakers
Ricard Marco, president of Fotoconnexió (chair for the lectures).
18:30 - First lecture
The early days of the travelling photographer. Technology, citizens and photographic culture
Thanks to new technological possibilities, as well as to the growth in photographic culture at that time, in around 1900 new methods of portrait photography appeared, using both automatic cameras and produced by itinerant photographers. Thus, machines that were precursors of the famous photo booths of the 1930s emerged at the same time as what were known as “minute” photographers.
Lecture given by Núria F. Rius (lecturer at the Massana school and Pompeu Fabra University. Founding member of the cultural association Fotoconnexió and member of the research groups Gracmon (at UB) and INVBAC (at UPF). In 2011 she was awarded a doctorate, with a thesis devoted to the portraitist Pau Audouard. Two years later, this thesis formed the body of the book Pau Audouard. Fotografia en temps de Modernisme (Pau Audouard. Photography in the time of Modernisme). She has curated several dissemination exhibitions at the La Casa Elizalde Cultural Centre, and has recently co-curated the exhibition Carles Fontserè, photocitizen).
19:05 - Second lecture
Humans of Barcelona, a description of the city through its human landscape
Ordinary people in the street take centre stage in this contemporary testimony to their city. Natural portraits of the city’s most remarkable inhabitants.
Lecture by Enric Mestres Illamola (professional photographer specialised in portraits and social reportage. Photography teacher since 2000, giving beginners classes and courses in portrait photography at various centres and schools in Barcelona. Since 2010 he has been working on the project Humans of Barcelona, a photographic portrait of the city through its most remarkable characters).
19:40 - Inauguration of the exhibition Anònims
Officiated by Albert Curto (Director of the Baix Ebre Regional Archive).
A guided tour of the exhibition Anònims. Retrats de 1940. Joan Sorlí (Anonymous. Portraits from 1940. Joan Sorlí) organised by Albert Curto and Laura Tienda, the exhibition curators. The presentation will also be attended by Mr. Enric Roig, Vice-President of the Baix Ebre Regional Council, and Mr. Josep Maria Boya, Director General of Archives, Libraries, Museums and Heritage (Department of Culture of the Generalitat of Catalonia).
Cycle: Exhibition: Anonymous. "Retrats de 1940"
Organized by: L’Arxiu Comarcal del Baix Ebre, la Residència d’Investigadors del CSIC-Generalitat de Catalunya i l’Associació Cultural Fotoconnexió.
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