スペインのバルセロナ地方の市民戦争写真が,競売に出され見付かる
La Guerra Civil del fotógrafo anónimo
Recobradas cientos de imágenes sin autor de la vida cotidiana en el conflicto
José Ángel Montañés 28 MAR 2013 - 00:00 CET
The Civil War Photographer anonymous
Recovered hundreds of images without copyright of everyday life in the conflict
José Ángel Montanes 28 MAR 2013 - 00:00 CET
It was a lot certainly intriguing offered by Soler y Llach in Barcelona in July 2010: a file with 1,400 negatives, most Civil War images taken by a photographer anonymous. They had been recovered in southern France. Republican militia parades in different locations on the Aragon front, golf instruction Army, musters of the troops, the soldiers' daily life ... Eating, resting in the trenches or interrogating prisoners, effects of the bombs, crossfire in the river Segre, tanks in action ... The new images also offer a unique passport to everyday life in Barcelona: sports or groups of swimmers in Sitges, Castelldefels or Badalona, snapshots of the 1931 elections and the events of the October Revolution of 1934. This identified and preserved three small boxes in a timber and two brass.
The lot, which started with a price of 25,000 euros, was no bidder. No more was heard of the photographs. Until yesterday. The Commission on the Dignity association has litigated for the return to Catalonia Salamanca papers called, explained that he had acquired over 15 days € 7,500 in an Internet auction.
The story seemed then repeated. According Josep Cruanyes spokesman entity negatives belonged to a photographer who was mobilized in the 30th Division of the People's Army had integrated column-Companys Macià. She took in his exile to France, as did Agustí Centelles, photographer most famous Spanish contest. Unlike Centelles, this unknown author not ever regained. "We have bought a Barcelona intermediary, but has sold a retired military Perpignan, about 80 years, son of another soldier who was exiled in French camps," said Cruanyes. He argued that the photographs are "richer than those of war correspondents who visited the front sporadically."
It has emerged that the photographer worked with two cameras, a Leica and one with negative 3x4 inches. "That indicates that he was a professional." In the negative, and many of them kept trimmed and others as part of its original roll, you can read the names and locations as Grañén Berdegal in Huesca, Badaüll ravine in Llimiana, Montgai, Baldomà, or Sanahuja Linyola in Lleida, or Martin del Rio, in Teruel, and other settings on the Aragon front and Segre. Also the control as Victor Torres, commissioner of the 146th Mixed Brigade, the divisional commissioner Jaume Girbau or Lieutenant Colonel Felipe Galan, chief of Army XI Corps.
Images positivadas and boxes with negatives. / J. Á. MOUNTAINEER
The Government did not want to see their quality was not comparable with that of other photojournalists. The purchase was made with contributions from 53 people. Among all gathered 10,000 euros, the money needed to purchase and study, by, Fotoconnexió association, assisted by technicians from National Archive of Catalonia (ANC). The rest will be for display and edit a book. In 2014, the fund was given to the ANC.
Cruanyes venture to launch a name: the photographer's Andreu Puig Farran, who died in 1982. "The history of this photographer coincides with these images, as Puig was in the front and ended up in exile taking your file ... not ever recovered. " Now begins the study of the background and is soon to conclusions. In several of the photographs shows a woman. In one of the negatives you can read his name: Maria Fabregat. In another, the young, smile, next to a sergeant Republican, the same as shown in another image, supported by a doorway. Maybe, just maybe, the military is the author of all these mysterious photographs.
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