The Fundació Foto Colectania presents “Barcelona 1957. Leopoldo Pomes” retrieves a sample photo project about the city of Barcelona to the publisher Carlos Barral Pomés a young commissioned in 1957 but, despite its quality and intensity, not has come to light so far.
Far from portraying a showcase city, Pomés raised a tour of the very essence of Barcelona in the late fifties offering his perspective on the city as a whole. Thus, the Raval, Eixample not escape your goal and neither did life in neighborhoods such as Barceloneta, Verdum o Encantes, located at that time in the city limits.
In 1946, Leopoldo Pomes in photography began a self-taught when it acquired his first camera. It represents one of the key figures of Spanish photography of the mid-twentieth century for his unique style and timeless, easily recognizable, but also for their ability to synthesize stories in a single snapshot. A característiva which has earned recognition as primarily a photographer and audiovisual producer, being the creator of such iconic images as the bubble Freixenet or image campaign Barcelona’s bid to host the 1992 Olympics.
From 19 September to 26 January 2012 will be able to see the 80 pictures that made the project, many of them vintage prints in an exhibition curated by Pepe Font de Mora, director of the Foundation Photo Colectania also be collected in a photo book co-edited by Colectania Photo and factory, including texts by Juan Manuel Bonet, Leopoldo Pomes and Eduardo Mendoza.
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