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A look at Harsh light, without compassion. The Worker-Photography Movement, 1926-1939

Event Details

Time: April 6, 2011 to August 22, 2011
Location: Sabatini Building, Floor 3, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía
Street: Santa Isabel
City/Town: 52 28012 Madrid
Website or Map: http://www.museoreinasofia.es/
Phone: Madrid 91 774 10 00
Event Type: exhibition
Organized By: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía
Latest Activity: Jan 26, 2011

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Event Description

The worker-photography movement is often marginalized in discussions of how photographic modernism evolved over the course of the 20th century. This visit to the exhibition is intended to help rectify this shortcoming and provide the elements necessary to convey a history of the movement, for the first time, in a museum of modern art.

Jorge Ribalta, photography historian and curator of the exhibition, makes, in this presentation, an initial attempt at historization, in which the idea is not to look at particular artists and photographs, but rather to narrate the creation of public spaces through the medium of photography.