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Consuelo Kanaga
Tennessee, 1950
Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Wallace B. Putnam from the Estate of Consuelo Kanaga
© Brooklyn Museum
MAY.30.2024 – AUG.25.2024, MAD
Consuelo Kanaga
Catch the Spirit
Over a career spanning six decades, American photographer Consuelo Kanaga (1894-1976) captured the social conflicts of her time, from urban poverty to the struggle for workers’ rights, racial segregation and social inequality.
A pioneer of photojournalism, she also mastered genres such as still life, but became especially known for her emotive and introspective social portraits of African Americans, in which she combined modernist formal techniques and a radical documentary approach. This exhibition, organized in collaboration with the Brooklyn Museum, retraces her career in an extensive selection of her photographs (mostly vintage prints), together with some material from her own archive.
David Goldblatt
The dethroning of Cecil John Rhodes, after the throwing of human feces on the statue and the agreement of the university to the demands of students for its removal, the University of Cape Town, 9 April 2015.
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, purchased with a gift from Jane P. Watkins, M.P.H. 1979; with the Leonard C. Hanna, Jr., Class of 1913, Fund; and with support from the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, 2022.37.515. © The David Goldblatt Legacy Trust.
MAY.30.2024 – AUG.25.2024, MAD
David Goldblatt
No ulterior motive
The renowned South African photographer David Goldblatt (1930-2018) dedicated his life to documenting his country and its people. Renowned for his subtle portraits of life under apartheid, his work, with its wide range of themes, is now essential to understanding what is undoubtedly one of the most painful processes and periods in contemporary history. David Goldblatt was the first South African artist to have a solo exhibition at MOMA in New York (1998) and has been distinguished with, among others, the Hasselblad (2006) and Henri Cartier-Bresson (2009) awards.
Organized in collaboration with the Art Institute of Chicago and the Yale University Art Gallery, this wide-ranging retrospective brings together much of his work and also draws, for the first time, connections with other South African photographers from one to three generations later who acknowledge their debt to Goldblatt as a mentor.
Consuelo Kanaga
Tennessee, 1950
Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Wallace B. Putnam from the Estate of Consuelo Kanaga
© Brooklyn Museum
FEB.15.2024 – MAY.12.2024, BCN
Consuelo Kanaga
Catch the Spirit
Consuelo Kanaga: Catch the Spirit traces for the first time in Spain and Europe the entire career of this American photographer. Kanaga (1894-1978) is considered a fundamental figure in the history of contemporary photography, both for her contribution to the recognition of women in the field of photography and for the intensity with which her images confront the viewer with some of the great social issues of our time, especially the situation of the African-American population in the United States.
Antoni Rosal Grelon
Grupo de hombres alrededor de un pequeño estanque, décadas de 1910-1920
Arxiu Nacional de Catalunya (ANC), Fons Antoni Rosal Grelon, Sant Cugat del Vallès
FEB.15.2024 – MAY.12.2024, BCN
The domestic camera
Amateur photography in Catalonia (ca. 1880-1936)
For decades, amateur photography remained on the margins of the official history of photography, mainly because of its character as a mass activity and the shortcomings of many of its productions. For some time now, however, it has been the subject of attention for the way in which it manifests the social and cultural realities of its time. This exhibition traces its evolution in Catalonia from its beginnings around 1880 to the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War.
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