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An exhibition at the National Museum of Art of Catalonia shows moving scenes by Antoni Campañà, who concealed his pictures for decades inside a box and never told anyone about them, until his grandson discovered the prints in 2018
A native of Catalonia, Campañà took thousands of pictures of the conflict that raged between 1936 and 1939, but unlike his two famous colleagues, his lens focused not so much on epic events as on everyday life in the rearguard. Most remarkably, his work documenting the war lay hidden for decades inside two red boxes in the garage of a house that was about to be sold. Campañà, who died in 1989, never told his family about its existence, and it was one of his grandchildren who stumbled upon a trove of images that represent a significant new contribution to Spain’s photographic records of that era.
https://english.elpais.com/arts/202...vil-war-photographs-emerges-in-barcelona.html
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'Militiawoman at a barricade on Hospital street, July 1936', by Antoni Campañà
It is said that a picture is worth a thousand words and how true it is for the records of historical events long after those involved took part. Thanks to photographers such as Antoni Campañà we can see how the world looked and imagine how it must have been. We become witnesses.
A native of Catalonia, Campañà took thousands of pictures of the conflict that raged between 1936 and 1939, but unlike his two famous colleagues, his lens focused not so much on epic events as on everyday life in the rearguard. Most remarkably, his work documenting the war lay hidden for decades inside two red boxes in the garage of a house that was about to be sold. Campañà, who died in 1989, never told his family about its existence, and it was one of his grandchildren who stumbled upon a trove of images that represent a significant new contribution to Spain’s photographic records of that era.
https://english.elpais.com/arts/202...vil-war-photographs-emerges-in-barcelona.html
'Militiawoman at a barricade on Hospital street, July 1936', by Antoni Campañà
It is said that a picture is worth a thousand words and how true it is for the records of historical events long after those involved took part. Thanks to photographers such as Antoni Campañà we can see how the world looked and imagine how it must have been. We become witnesses.