| | | |  | | | Lee Friedlander
Baltimore, 1968
Courtesy of the artist and Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
© Lee Friedlander, courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco and Luhring Augustine, New York | | | | | | | 18 February – 15 May 2022 | | | | | | | 18 February – 15 May 2022 | | |  | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | |  | | | Lee Friedlander
New York City, New York, 2011
Courtesy of the artist and Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
© Lee Friedlander, courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco and Luhring Augustine, New York | | | | | | | 18 February – 15 May 2022 | | | The American social landscape
Lee Friedlander has been a photographer almost since he was a teenager. In the sixties, after settling in New York and despite still being in an apprenticeship period, he became a mature artist and begins to develop his unique visual language, which break away from traditional means of representation shaking the viewer with juxtapositions of seemingly unconnected objects and ideas, in contrast with the seriousness of previous documentary photographers. | | | | | |  | | | Lee Friedlander
Haverstraw, New York, 1966
Courtesy of the artist and Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
© Lee Friedlander, courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco and Luhring Augustine, New York | | | | | | Considered the photographer of the American social landscape and as such included in the category of documentary photographer, Friedlander has travelled across the United States on many occasions, capturing everything he sees. He is, however, more interested in the medium of photography and in producing “a good photograph” than in the social aspects that concerned his predecessors.
The exhibition has been organized chronologically, starting from the beginning of his career to his latest images, taken just a few years ago, featuring around 300 photographs of urban scenes, landscapes, portraits, self-portraits or natural forms. It also includes a selection of books of his most significant projects. | | | | | |  | | | Lee Friedlander
Albuquerque, 1972
Courtesy of the artist and Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
© Lee Friedlander, courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco and Luhring Augustine, New York | | | | | | This wide-ranging selection will introduce visitors to the extensive and powerful work of one of the most influential American photographers of the 20th century who continues active today.
If art is a form of experimenting, the sense of alienation that we experience when looking at Friedlander’s images allows us to look afresh at the world, free up our perceptual capacities and discover what the rigidity of tradition had made invisible; in other words, it allows us to renew our experience of the world. | | | | |
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Adolf Mas, ca. 1909
© Fundació Institut Amatller d’Art Hispànic | | | | | | | 18 February – 15 May 2022 | | | Barcelona in transformation
The core of the exhibition features Mas’s photographs of Barcelona. His camera captured the architectural, social and cultural changes of the city in images that interweave a documentary record with the aesthetic lines of contemporary European artistic tendencies. a Barcelona of contrasts, stratified between the barraca shacks in the suburbs and the mansions of the Eixample, between the luxurious cafés in the center for the pleasure of the bourgeoisie and the shantytowns built by beggars in Barceloneta, without forgetting the institutions that reflected the changes of the time, such as the modern schools or the women’s training workshops. | | | | | |  | | | Nuns and children from the Sanatori Marítim de Sant Josep in the neighborhood of La Barceloneta
Adolf Mas, 1913
© Fundació Institut Amatller d’Art Hispànic | | | | | | | In his work, the documentary is fused with an aesthetic construction in line with the production of other contemporary and subsequent authors such as Eugène Atget, Brassaï or the current of humanist photography. | | | | | |  | | | Tórtola Valencia. The Dance “La Bayadère”
Adolf Mas, 1914
© MAE-Institut del Teatre | | | | | | The Mas Archive
Set up by Adolf Mas in 1900 with the aim of inventorying the iconographic repertoire of Catalonia and, later on, the whole of Spain, this is the most important photographic archive in Europe on Spanish heritage. A monumental work developed over a period of more than thirty years in which an avant-garde idea, born out of a commercial interest, materialised without losing sight of the importance of documenting and disseminating a shared cultural heritage. After the Spanish Civil War, the Mas Archive (Archivo Mas) was acquired by Teresa Amatller in 1941 and is now part of the holdings of the Institut Amatller d’Art Hispànic. | | | | | |  | | | Lactation House
Adolf Mas, 1903
© Fundació Institut Amatller d’Art Hispànic | | | | | | “The photographs of Adolf Mas portray a Barcelona in the midst of transformation, from a sociocultural, artistic, political and urbanistic perspective. Knowledge of his photographic legacy is key to being able to correctly interpret certain dynamics linked to the city of Barcelona at the beginning of the 20th century.”
- Carmen Perrotta, curator of the exhibition | | | | | |  | | | Adolf Mas Ginestà
Juegos. Gran vía de les Corts Catalanes, 1906
© Institut Amatller d’Art Hispànic. Arxiu Mas | | | | | | unsubscribe here
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