Spanish Photographers

[rosuna]

This new thread is about the Spanish photographers.
In this moment, in Madrid, two great exhibitions dedicated to Alberto García Alix and Isabel Muñoz. They both are impressive.

García Alix was awarded with the National Prize of Photography in 1999. He was a witness of the period known as "La Movida" (later seventies and early eighties) in Madrid. Many portraits of friends, most of then already death due to the drugs, selfportraits and "street photographies". He was an amateur photographer from 1976 to 1986, when he became a professional photographer. Actually, he uses Leica M cameras. He is a really great artist.

Alberto García-Alix - PhotoBolsillo.com

Isabel Muñoz is a gentler character. She is a nice woman looking for people of different cultures. She says to be looking for beauty even where the tragedy and pain reign. She has experimented with new types of prints, like the platinotype from gigantic negatives on watercolor paper. You can see it in the "making off" video from her exhibition (this is an exclusive for Leica Forum members, althought it was made public in another Spanish forum thanks to the author of the video, gpunto):

YouTube - Isabel Muñoz [making off]

Examples of her earlier work:

Isabel Muñoz - PhotoBolsillo.com

I will try to bring here some information about other Spanish artists. I think we are witnessing a kind of "golden age" in the Spanish photography.
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[stnami]

Isabel Muñoz seems to have a lot more affinity with her subjects along with a ability to interplay textures and make them sing and dance. Wonderful even on a screen

[vic vic]

rouben - thanks man.. enjoyed it very much...

both are great in their own ways...

munoz os fantastic as imants says.. ya... loved the motion, the poses etc..

but i loved (exited) even more with alberto garcia-laix.... dont know... it was as if u look at some of arbus's photos.... the sensitivity to people was great there... a great insight to something "spanish"... with full "individuality" of the charcters photographed in many of the photos there....

[rosuna]

About "La Movida"... (The Madrid movement...)

La Movida Madrileña - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

... more detailed in Spanish...

Movida madrileña - Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre

It helps to understand García Alix's motives.... in short, it is a period of change similar to the swinging London of the sixties...

Isabel Muñoz has an interesting webpage...

Isabel Muñoz

[rosuna]

Originally Posted by vic vic

tion, the poses etc..

but i loved (exited) even more with alberto garcia-laix.... dont know... it was as if u look at some of arbus's photos.... the sensitivity to people was great there... a great insight to something "spanish"... with full "individuality" of the charcters photographed in many of the photos there....

...then, you will like the pictures of Miguel Trillo, another famous photographer of that period and style...but in color...

http://www.photobolsillo.com/fotogra...uel_trillo.htm

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[stnami]

Great site thanks Rosuna, I had a look on their general site
http://www.photobolsillo.com/index.php

[vic vic]

rouben - thanks alot for the enlightment... i realy love it -
and ya - the site there has some other fantastic artists as well - i will have a deeper look into it later

[@bumac]

I have seen the Garcia Alix exhibition in Madrid. Great. Really great.