Joan Colom Augustí
Arenys de Mar, 1879 – Barcelona, 1969
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I Work the Street. Joan Colom, photographs 1957-2010
«‘I didn't know I was doing social photography at that time. I just took photographs and went after pictures I found exciting. I’ve sometimes used the term to describe my work, but to me it just means I don’t do landscapes or still lifes. I work the street. I try, through my photographs, to be...
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Joan Colom: “I do the street”
Last Sunday September 3, 2017, we lost Joan Colom at 96, one of the best photographers of the photographic history in Catalonia, a photojournalist pioneer in our country and an essential figure in the...
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I Work the Street. Joan Colom, photographs 1957-2010
Retrospective devoted to the photographer Joan Colom.
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Joan Colom. From the series 5th District, 1960
The new photographic avant-garde in Catalonia reached its aesthetic culmination during the first years of the 1960s, precisely with the work of an amateur photographer, Joan...
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On the street. Conference on Joan Colom and his context
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El carrer. Joan Colom a la Sala Aixelà, 1961
In 1961, Joan Colom, a leader in the 'New Avant-Garde' (nova avantguarda) photography movement along with Català-Roca, Miserachs and Maspons, put on show at the Sala Aixelà in Barcelona a series of photos taken between 1958 and 1960 in the 'Barri Xino' using hidden camera techniques. The MNAC...
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Sketch of a caricature of the head of Joan Colom (anverso) / Croquis arquitectónico (reverso)
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Sketch of a caricature of the head of Joan Colom
Read more2005-2013 The Palau Nacional on Montjuïc
The Library reopens to the public on January 17th 2005 in the MNAC building. It is named the MNAC Library.
With regard to admissions, mention should be made of the commodatums of the library-archive of the Sala Parés and part of the material from the library of Joan Josep Tharrats. ...
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