PHOTOGRAPHY AND SOCIETY, 1843-1920
The exhibition wants to get closer to the giant figure of Galdós through the evocative power of photography and its quality as a mirror of the past and a source of memory. Under the curation of Publio López Mondéjar, a rigorous historian of Spanish photography, we present hundreds of portraits of the master, most of which are shown in this exhibition for the first time. But the exhibition is not limited to the recreation of a photographic portrait of Galdós, but rather places the writer in the historical, social and cultural context of the Spain of his time.
One of the areas of the exhibition focuses on the representation of the settings in which he spent his life, especially in cities such as Las Palmas, Madrid, Toledo and Santander. In a third area, the portraits of the characters who starred in Spanish history and culture during the years of the writer's life are gathered, from Isabel II, Amadeo I, Alfonso XII, Alfonso XIII, Emilio Castelar, Antonio Cánovas, Práxedes Mateo Sagasta, Baldomero Espartero, Juan Prim, Clarín, Emilia Pardo Bazán, Ruperto Chapí, María Guerrero, Margarita Xirgu and other outstanding figures of the century that is already beginning to be known as the Century of Galdós. In different display cabinets a selection of the photographic reports dedicated to Galdós is exhibited in the most important illustrated publications of the time, such as The Spanish and American Illustration, ABC, Blanco y Negro, El Figaro, Por those worlds, El arte del Teatro, Nuevo World, The Sphere, The Country and Graphic World.
The exhibition wants to get closer to the giant figure of Galdós through the evocative power of photography and its quality as a mirror of the past and a source of memory. Under the curation of Publio López Mondéjar, a rigorous historian of Spanish photography, we present hundreds of portraits of the master, most of which are shown in this exhibition for the first time. But the exhibition is not limited to the recreation of a photographic portrait of Galdós, but rather places the writer in the historical, social and cultural context of the Spain of his time.
One of the areas of the exhibition focuses on the representation of the settings in which he spent his life, especially in cities such as Las Palmas, Madrid, Toledo and Santander. In a third area, the portraits of the characters who starred in Spanish history and culture during the years of the writer's life are gathered, from Isabel II, Amadeo I, Alfonso XII, Alfonso XIII, Emilio Castelar, Antonio Cánovas, Práxedes Mateo Sagasta, Baldomero Espartero, Juan Prim, Clarín, Emilia Pardo Bazán, Ruperto Chapí, María Guerrero, Margarita Xirgu and other outstanding figures of the century that is already beginning to be known as the Century of Galdós. In different display cabinets a selection of the photographic reports dedicated to Galdós is exhibited in the most important illustrated publications of the time, such as The Spanish and American Illustration, ABC, Blanco y Negro, El Figaro, Por those worlds, El arte del Teatro, Nuevo World, The Sphere, The Country and Graphic World.
