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Fototertúlia Àngel Prat, the photographer of the countryside and the shrewd look , by Sònia Granel Marín

6 06Europe/Madrid September 06Europe/Madrid 2021 - 18:30 - 19:30

Free

Monday, September 6, 2021.

You can access the live photo talk at 6:30 pm from this link (the session will be recorded on video): https://meet.jit.si/FTT_2021

Àngel Prat i Pujol (Cal Vidal, Puig-Reig, 1906 – Vilardaga de la Guàrdia, Sagàs, 2002), was born in an industrial colony in the Llobregat where his parents owned the inn and the butcher’s shop. He started practicing photography out of sheer curiosity and also thanks to the arrival of cinema in Puig-Reig. He was then fourteen years old and as a result of that event began to cast Chinese shadows on his home with transparent paper.

This hobby grew when the family moved to another colony in the Berguedà region. There he established contact with Belgian loom assemblers accustomed to the new technological and photographic trends of the time, which provided him with magazines and photography manuals that he studied. From them he retained the technique, the practice of capturing and developing photographs and adapted his own technique in a completely self-taught way.

After his marriage to the pubilla of a large manor house in the municipality of Sagàs (also in Berguedà), the doors were opened for him to develop his photographic side more habitually.

As an amateur and self-taught photographer, Prat has won numerous national and international awards. His work is a first-rate experiential and documentary legacy about the landscape of Berguedà, agricultural work in farmhouses, textile colonies, social and journalistic chronicles, without forgetting the images of his travels or the author’s photographs.

Children tying corn cobs to let them dry in a room in the house of Vilardaga de la Guàrdia. Sagàs, c. 1950 – 1960

His work was researched between 2014 and 2015 on the occasion of the exhibition and publication of the book Àngel Prat, la mirada sagaç. Photographs from 1940 to 1980, curated by Sònia Granel, a tribute to the figure of the photographer. The exhibition was promoted by the company Logos Berguedà, with the help of Virgínia Parramon, which aimed to promote the culture of the region.

After an exhaustive work of reviewing the photographic collection of Prat, it was possible to know and appreciate the gaze of a man passionate about photography, landscapes, the region and his time.

 

 

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Date:
6 06Europe/Madrid September 06Europe/Madrid 2021
Time:
18:30 - 19:30
Cost:
Free
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