Extremadura and Latin American Museum of Contemporary Art (MEIAC) hosts until November 9, the exhibition 'MARIN. Photographs 1908-1940 'which takes a journey through the work of this photographer from Madrid, with a selection that runs the thirty-six years of production in Marin and belong to a file made up of nearly 18,000 negatives, mostly of glass, she survived thanks to his family.
Marin had a close relationship from 1924 to 1929 with the National Telephone Company of Spain, as it was the photographer greater number of images contributed to the draft documents on the implementation of telephony in our country, so the Telefónica Foundation been responsible, in collaboration with Pablo Iglesias Foundation, which houses the archive of Marin now, to recover the works.
hundred twenty years after its birth, this exhibition features Luis Ramón Marín as a great author belonging to a generation of photographers, essential parts of the beginnings of photojournalism in Spain, which began its work in the early twentieth century and disappeared after the English Civil War. Many of them were repressed, abandoned photography and in many cases suffered confiscation, destruction and neglect of their files.
Luis Ramón Marín, who for their work in the press using his middle name, is one of the first photographers who came to the streets to record the news today and the camera, bound for the first illustrated magazines and newspapers that lived for a time of enormous expansion in the first two decades of century. Marin on the other hand is the author of some of the earliest known aerial photos in our country, which began to carry out since 1913, barely a decade after the discovery of aviation.
Marin had a close relationship from 1924 to 1929 with the National Telephone Company of Spain, as it was the photographer greater number of images contributed to the draft documents on the implementation of telephony in our country, so the Telefónica Foundation been responsible, in collaboration with Pablo Iglesias Foundation, which houses the archive of Marin now, to recover the works.
hundred twenty years after its birth, this exhibition features Luis Ramón Marín as a great author belonging to a generation of photographers, essential parts of the beginnings of photojournalism in Spain, which began its work in the early twentieth century and disappeared after the English Civil War. Many of them were repressed, abandoned photography and in many cases suffered confiscation, destruction and neglect of their files.
Luis Ramón Marín, who for their work in the press using his middle name, is one of the first photographers who came to the streets to record the news today and the camera, bound for the first illustrated magazines and newspapers that lived for a time of enormous expansion in the first two decades of century. Marin on the other hand is the author of some of the earliest known aerial photos in our country, which began to carry out since 1913, barely a decade after the discovery of aviation.
Marin was above all a photojournalist who went on to publish in newspapers more than 1,000 photos a year and was a correspondent for newspaper before the Royal Family, which was even on their vacation periods, hence many of the photographs have a familiar character novel, in addition to recording the major events of the English cultural and political life and portray their principal actors, along with all sorts of street scenes and popular faces and anonymous.
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