Jules Ainaud’s Catalonia (1871-1872)

Between 1871 and 1872 Jules Ainaud (Lunel, France, 1837-Barcelona, 1900) travelled around various towns in Catalonia to take photographs of places of scenic and artistic interest for J. Laurent establishment, the most important firm of the time in the production and marketing of photographic images.

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Brassaï at Fundación MAPFRE

Brassaï (the pseudonym of Gyula Halász, 1899-1984) was a Hungarian-French photographer who settled in Paris in 1924. He trained as an artist and began as a serious photographer in 1929. He is most famous for his photographs of night-time scenes in the Montparnasse district of Paris during the 1930s. The Brassaï retrospective exhibition at Fundación …

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Hiroshi Sugimoto, Black Box

The Fundación MAPFRE exhibition of Japanese photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto called Black Box displays some of his most important works over the past 40 years.

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