Sculpting Reality: The Documentary Style In The Per Amor A L’Art Collection

This exhibition aims to revisit the concept “documentary style” as Olivier Lugon defines it: understand the document as form (and even as aesthetics). This “style” would be founded by Walker Evans and would have a great influence on North American photography from the 1930’s. Early examples are Helen Levitt or Robert Frank. In the first place, this type of photography will be understood as something related to reportage, photojournalism – which was shown in newspapers and magazines, as Double Elephant Press – but in a matter of time manifests a need of experimenting with the photographic language itself, as Lee Friedlander or Garry Winogrand did.

Artists: Walker Evans, Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Helen Levitt, Louis Faurer, Robert Frank, Ricardo Rangel, David Goldblatt, Anthony Hernández, Mike Mandel, Lee Friedlander, Edward Ruscha, Xavier Ribas, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Lewis Baltz, Bleda y Rosa, Susan Meiselas, Tod Papageorge, Ian Wallace, Garry Winogrand.

Exhibition curated by Julia Castelló, Sandra Guimarães and Vicent Todolí.