An exhibition you can not miss it, which is taking place for the first time in our country is: "Photography and modern architecture in Spain, 1925-1965" which in a explicit way will carry out an approach to the role of photography during the period of spanish modern architecture through more than 250 images by about 40 photographers during more than 4 decades. Català-Roca, Pando, Kindel, Paco Gómez, Schommer, Muller, Férriz, Luis Lladó or Margaret Michaelis, among others, are some of the photographers whose works are shown in this exhibition which is part of the oficial programm of the PHotoEspaña 2014 festival.

Photography and Modern Architecture in Spain, 1925-1965 is the result of an ongoing research project, and provides the first explicit examination of the role played by photography within Spanish modern architecture. The exhibition is broadly limited to the period specifically regarded by historians of Spanish architecture as the heyday of what came to be called the Modern Movement: from the emergence of the avant-garde movements of the mid-1920s to the crisis of the International Style in the late 1960s.

The exhibition strips the photographs of their context and purpose –the dissemination of architecture– in order to appraise them in their own right, from the standpoint of photography as a discipline, with a view to charting the contribution made by the photographers themselves. In Spain, as in other countries, photographers, architects and the media worked closely together; this clearly helped photographers to gain wider recognition. The exhibition looks not only at the work of well-known, prolific figures such as Català-Roca, Kindel, Pando and Gómez, but also at the output of around forty photographers specialized in Spanish modern architecture. Other themes include the architects’ interest in photography, portraits of architects, and the media through which architectural projects were brought into the public domain. The exhibition seeks to join the interdisciplinary debate by exploring the role of photography and photographers, both in architecture and within their own discipline.

 

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from Wednesday, 04 June through 7 September 2014
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Museo ICO. Calle Zorrilla, 3. 28014 Madrid. Spain
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Inaki Bergera (Vitoria, 1972) is an architect, photographer and full professor at the University of Zaragoza. With a scholarship from the Caixa Foundation, he graduated with an extraordinary prize in the Master in Design Studies of Harvard University (2002). 

He has been principal investigator of the project "Photography and modern architecture in Spain" and curator of two exhibitions on the subject at the ICO Museum in Madrid (PHE 2014 and PHE 2016). 

Author and editor of more than twenty books, he has a wide scientific production of articles and international papers. In 2001 he studied photography at the Harvard School of Visual Arts and, since then, has developed a personal photographic work around the relationships between photography, architecture and urban and natural space, captured in several solo exhibitions such as America, urban landscape (2006), A Tale of Two Cities (2008), In the landscape (2010), Twentysix (Abandoned) Gasoline Stations (SCAN Tarragona 2014, PHE 2015 and MUN 2018) and Empty Parking Spaces (2019) and in groups such as La creación del paisaje contemporáneo (DKV-Alcobendas, 2016) or Unfinished (Venice Biennale, 2016).

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Published on: May 30, 2014
Cite: "Photography and Modern Architecture in Spain, 1925-1965" METALOCUS. Accessed
<https://www.metalocus.es/en/news/photography-and-modern-architecture-spain-1925-1965> ISSN 1139-6415
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