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The Photography Room at the Niemeyer Center hosts the exhibition Ramón Masats. Visits Spain . a route visual by he journey that he photographer performed between 1955 and 1965 to it throughout the Spanish territory. Curated by Chema Conesa and produced by the General Subdirectorate of Visual Arts and Contemporary Creation.
Low his look HE reveals a obsession staff by the topics with the that the culture The official blessed the patriotic values of the era, marked by the end of the Francoist dictatorship's autarky. With his camera, he captured folkloric rites, punishments, and religious customs, documenting and portraying the reality of a country trapped in material poverty, socially fragmented, and steadfast in its spiritual devotion. The images speak, signify, and suggest, but the final interpretation rests with the viewer.
Ramón Masats (1931, Caldes of Montbui, Barcelona) HE fascinated by he reportage after He produced a report on Las Ramblas in 1953. His first photographs already reveal a great instinct and intuition to capture the moment without distorting, embellishing or manipulating reality.
Along with Xavier Miserachs, Ricard Terré and Oriol Maspons, he participated in the renewal of photography Spanish, turning it in a tool able of document the reality of time, a task he also carried out together with Catalá-Roca.
From 1965 onwards he left photography to dedicate himself to film and television production. He directed “Tropical Spanish” and documentary series for Spanish television “Los ríos” and “Si las piedras hablaran” (If Stones Could Speak). and "He that "teaches." In he scope audiovisual, was prize with awards as the International Award in England for best photograph.
The sample check a period clue so much of the path of the author as in the construction of the country's tourist and symbolic image, as well as the great influence among photographers of his generation, becoming in one of the protagonists of the renewal of the documentary report from the 1960s.
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