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Consuelo Kanaga
Tennessee, 1950
Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Wallace B. Putnam from the Estate of Consuelo Kanaga
© Brooklyn Museum
MAY.30.2024 – AUG.25.2024, MAD
Consuelo Kanaga
Catch the Spirit
Over a career spanning six decades, American photographer Consuelo Kanaga (1894-1976) captured the social conflicts of her time, from urban poverty to the struggle for workers’ rights, racial segregation and social inequality.
A pioneer of photojournalism, she also mastered genres such as still life, but became especially known for her emotive and introspective social portraits of African Americans, in which she combined modernist formal techniques and a radical documentary approach. This exhibition, organized in collaboration with the Brooklyn Museum, retraces her career in an extensive selection of her photographs (mostly vintage prints), together with some material from her own archive.
David Goldblatt
The dethroning of Cecil John Rhodes, after the throwing of human feces on the statue and the agreement of the university to the demands of students for its removal, the University of Cape Town, 9 April 2015.
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, purchased with a gift from Jane P. Watkins, M.P.H. 1979; with the Leonard C. Hanna, Jr., Class of 1913, Fund; and with support from the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, 2022.37.515. © The David Goldblatt Legacy Trust.
MAY.30.2024 – AUG.25.2024, MAD
David Goldblatt
No ulterior motive
The renowned South African photographer David Goldblatt (1930-2018) dedicated his life to documenting his country and its people. Renowned for his subtle portraits of life under apartheid, his work, with its wide range of themes, is now essential to understanding what is undoubtedly one of the most painful processes and periods in contemporary history. David Goldblatt was the first South African artist to have a solo exhibition at MOMA in New York (1998) and has been distinguished with, among others, the Hasselblad (2006) and Henri Cartier-Bresson (2009) awards.
Organized in collaboration with the Art Institute of Chicago and the Yale University Art Gallery, this wide-ranging retrospective brings together much of his work and also draws, for the first time, connections with other South African photographers from one to three generations later who acknowledge their debt to Goldblatt as a mentor.
Louis Stettner
Brooklyn Promenade, Brooklyn, New York, 1954
Colecciones Fundación MAPFRE
© Louis Stettner Estate
JUN.06.2024 – SEP.15.2024, BCN
Louis Stettner
The variety of the subjects he explores, and the permanent social component of his images are the main features of the work of the American Louis Stettner (1922-2016), a long and highly interesting career that has not so far received the recognition it deserves.
With a life that straddled New York and Paris, Stettner remained rooted in two worlds at a time when most photographers related to only one of them. In this sense, his work is reminiscent of both the aesthetics of New York street photography and the poetic gaze of traditional French urban photography, always against the backdrop of his social concern and his determination to reflect the dignity of the human being.
Paz Errázuriz
Evelyn I, Santiago, from the series Adam’s apple, 1987
© Paz Errazuriz. Colecciones Fundación MAPFRE
JUN.06.2024 – SEP.15.2024, BCN
Paz Errázuriz
In 2018, and after presenting the first retrospective of the artist in Spain, Fundación MAPFRE brought to its collection 173 works by Chilean photographer Paz Errázuriz (Santiago de Chile, 1944), author of an extensive, committed, and recognized work around the social and political reality of her country with an aesthetic that, far from classic photojournalism, involves a profound gaze on the human condition.
As part of the annual appointment of the KBr’s program with our Collections, this exhibition presents a careful selection of that collection, in a presentation that provides an overview of his work from the seventies to the present and includes some of his best-known series, such as La Manzana de Adán (Adam’s Apple) or El infarto del alma (Heart attack of the soul).
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