THE photographic exhibition entitled De lo humano. Fotografia Internacional 1900-1950, which has been on show at the Picasso Museum in Malaga (MPM) for the past four months received 52,396 visitors. On average, 624 people visited the exhibition every day.
This exhibition analysed the evolution of photography during the first half of the twentieth century, with a collection of 111 photos by 68 photographers including Cecil Beaton, Brassai, Claude Cahun, Cartier-Bresson, Langdon Coburn, Kertesz, Moholy-Nagy, Man Ray, Rodtchenko, August Sander and Edward Steichen, all of which have the human being as their central theme.
Most of the photos in the exhibition, which was presented by the Junta de Andalucia’s councillor for Culture, Rosa Torres, came from the Folkwang Museum in Essen (Germany) but there were also works lent by the Cartier-Bresson Foundation in Paris, the International Photographic Centre in New York and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, to name just a few.
Christine Ruiz-Picasso, the Malaga artist’s daughter-in-law, reminded those present at the inaugural conference in February that Picasso himself had realised the importance of photography and had purchased a camera in 1907 with which he recorded the evolution of one of his most important works, Les Demoiselles d''Avignon. He is even said to have wondered whether one day, photography would completely substitute painting. |
