A conversation with Nicholas Nixon
On the occasion of the publication of the catalog dedicated to the Nicholas Nixon retrospective, Carlos Gollonet, chief curator of photography at Fundación MAPF...
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Hyde Park Avenue, la elección del comisario
TEXT: CARLOS GOLLONET
In 1977 Nixon started exploring the banks of the Charles River, near Boston. This project would continue through to 1982. Durin...
Duane Michals
From May 31 through September 10, 2017 Fundación MAPFRE is presenting in its Barcelona exhibition hall (Casa Garriga i Nogués) a retrospective exhibition dedicated to the American photographer Duane Michals. TEXT: BLANCA DE LA VÁLGOMA IM...
Albert Renger-Patzsch. The Perspective of Things
This exhibition, which will run from June 22 through September 10, 2017 at Fundación MAPFRE’s Recoletos Exhibition Hall in Madrid, includes 185 photogra...
Grandpa Goes to Heaven
Grandpa Goes to Heaven is one of the most famous sequences by Duane Michals. The sequences are, according to the style of Michals, a series of images that go to make up a short story, putting in question the sacredness of the single shot.
Landscape of Essen and Rosenblumendelle Colliery
Ségio Mah, curator of the exhibition Albert Renger-Patzsch. The Perspective of Things, analyse the image Landschaft bei Essen und Zeche “Rosenblumendelle”, a photograph that conveys the contrast between the idyllic serenity of the rural world, in the foreground, and the background revealing the massive, outsized nature of the new industrial complexes