Public photographic spaces
Subtitle: exhibitions of Propaganda, from Pressa to The Family of Man, 1928-55
By: [curator, Jorge Ribalta].
Contributors: Ribalta, Jorge.; Museu d'Art Contemporani (Barcelona, Spain); Museu Colecção Berardo.
Publisher: Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Barcelona
Language: eng
Number of pages: 491
ISBN-13: 9788492505067
Subjects: Photography -- History -- Exhibitions; Propaganda -- Exhibitions; Photography -- Political aspects -- History -- Exhibitions
Genres: Exhibitions
Other titles: Exhibitions of propaganda, from Pressa to The Family of Man, 1928-55
Description: "Universal Archive: the condition of the document and the modern photographic utopia," an exhibition that brings together nearly 2,000 documents (of which the almost 1,000 vintage photographs and prints are of particular interest) dating from 1851 to 2008 by some 250 authors including: Lewis Hine, Walter Ballhause, Alexander Rodchenko, Morris Engel, Andre Kertesz, Weegee, Eugene Atget, Paul Strand, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Helen Levitt, Walker Evans, Brassai, Robert Doisneau, Bill Brandt, Dorothea Lange, El Lissitzky, Dziga Vertov, Herbert Bayer, Walter Gropius, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Edward Steichen, August Sander, Ben Shahn, Franco Pinna, Francesc Catala-Roca, Ramon Masats, Oriol Maspons, Joan Colom, Xavier Miserachs, Carlos Perez Siquier, Jose Ortiz Echague, Margaret Mead, Juan Rulfo, Charles Clifford, Jean Laurent, Robert P. Napper, Charles Marville, Robert Frank, Berenice Abbott, William Klein, Bernd andy Hilla Becher, Allan Sekula, Ed Ruscha, Dan Graham, Martha Rosler, Marcel Broodthaers, Garry Winogrand, Adolf Mas, Josep Branguli, Pere Catala Pic, Agusti Centelles, Margaret Michaelis, Otho Lloyd, Humberto Rivas, Manolo Laguillo and Gilbert Fastenaekens.
Notes: "Published on the occasion of the exhibition Universal Archive, The Condition of the Document and the Modern Photographic Utopia, organised by the Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Oct. 23, 2008- Jan. 6, 2009 and co-produced with the Museu Colecçâo Berardo-Arte Moderna e Contemporânea, Lisbon, Mar. 9-May 3, 2009."--Colophon.

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