Agustí Centelles
Centro Cultural Conde Duque
The Spanish Civil War was a major event for photography. The widespread use of newly invented lightweight cameras meant that war in general, and especially the Spanish one, was covered daily on the front pages of newspapers around the world by figures such as Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, David Seymour, Gerda Taro, Joris Ivens, Tina Modotti, Hans Namuth, and many others. Naturally, many of the photographers covering the war were Spanish, and of those, Agustí Centelles is the one most closely associated with it. This exhibition, organized by the Institut de Cultura de Barcelona and the Area