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.
Foto Colectania is hosting the first exhibition in Barcelona of the work of Vivian Maier (1926 – 2009), an American governess had a secret passion for street photography.
The exhibition brings together almost 1,000 works, covering iconic photography of Barcelona’s urban development over a period of one and a half centuries.
The Fundación MAPFRE exhibition of Japanese photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto called Black Box displays some of his most important works over the past 40 years.
“The temptation to exist” exhibition at Fundació Foto Colectania displays two cult series in European photography by the Swedish photographers Christer Strömholm and Anders Petersen.
Gabriel Casas is an important photographer of interwar period. Along with Antoni Arissa he was a Catalan pioneer of the New Vision movement which started in Germany.