Emancipations. Foto Colectania Collection
Image credit# 241B Badajoz, We Can't go Home again, 2002 © Antonio Julio Duarte

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Spanish photography breaks free — from dictatorship, convention and eventually from photography's own rules.

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A new interpretation of the collection by Florian Ebner, Chief Curator of Photography at Centre Pompidou.

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Spanish photography · Postwar photography · Transition · European modernity · Documentary and experimental work

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The transition from photography documenting social change to photographers questioning the medium itself.

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Follow two emancipations at once: society freeing itself and photography freeing itself.

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The exhibition uses Foto Colectania's holdings to examine photography alongside Spain's social transformation. Rather than treating Spanish photography as an isolated national story, Ebner places it in conversation with broader narratives of European modernity.

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Emancipations. Foto Colectania Collection

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