A Photographer's Impressions

A Photographer's Impressions

  • Autor: Català-Roca, Francesc; Terré Alonso, Laura
  • Editor: Reverté Management
  • eISBN Pdf: 9788410290341
  • eISBN Epub: 9788410290303
  • Lugar de publicación:  Barcelona , España
  • Año de publicación: 2025
  • Páginas: 174

Francesc Català-Roca (1922 - 1998), was a Spanish photographer of great renown, considered a pioneer of documentary photography.Català-Roca: A Photographer's Impressions stands as a testament to an analog era, now almost entirely wiped out with the advent of the Internet and digital technologies.His photographic legacy is an invaluable visual testimony of the Spanish society of his time.His work in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s represented the emergence of new street photography in Spain. For half a century, he travelled across Spain, masterfully capturing everyday scenes of the post-war era and the essence of urban landscapes. He worked alongside artists such as Joan Miró and Antoni Tàpies, immortalizing the art and culture of the 20th century.Thirty years after its first edition, photography and history enthusiasts will discover previously unpublished content to enrich historiographic narratives. The text, both entertaining and spontaneous, preserves not only anecdotes about events and figures of the 20th century, but also offers humanist ideas for a responsible and passionate approach to photography. Even though the technology of that time has long been surpassed, this book remains full of vibrant ideas, serving as an antidote to today's automatism, overconsumption, and globalization that can trivialize the image.

  • Cover
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Prologue
  • Foreword
  • I. From Valls to Barcelona
    • Valls 1922-1931
    • Valls-Barcelona. My mother
    • Pere Català i Pic. My father
    • First works in photography
  • II. The civil war
    • The commissariat of propaganda
    • The bombardments
  • III. Postwar
    • Marking time
    • Photographs of the dead
    • Military service
  • IV. Working on my own
    • I become independent of my father
    • The grill room
    • Sí senyor
    • Group photos
  • V. Characters
    • Albert Puig Palau
    • Picasso
    • Miró
    • Llorens Artigas
    • Carles Riba
    • Thomas Bouchard
    • Salvador Dalí
    • Hemingway
    • Josep Lluís Sert
  • VI. A brief personal note
  • VII. Travel and photojournalism
    • Travelling around Spain
    • Travelling in the Americas
    • New York
    • Barcelona
  • VIII. Meditations
    • Point of view
    • Architecture
    • Very personal opinions
    • Photography and politicians
  • IX. My history of the image
    • Powerful image
    • On photography
    • The achromatics
    • Cinema
  • Chronology
  • Filmography
  • Bibliography
  • Sumari

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