Exposiciones de fotografía antigua sin fotografía antigua. Vintage photo exhibitions without vintage photos. Museo Nacional de Antropología. Madrid Sala Alcalá 31
Esta es una de las ocasiones que uno no sabe si escribir un post para dar su opinión o si, sencillamente, es mejor pasar de ello.
El título del post pienso que explica perfectamente la situación actual.
Exposiciones de fotografía antigua sin fotografía antigua. Vintage photo exhibitions without vintage photos.
Hay en este momento dos exposiciones en Madrid que, en principio, merece la pena ver.
En la Sala Alcalá 31
La exposición
también quiere ser un homenaje a grandes fotógrafos de los siglos XIX y
XX, que fueron testigos de una época gloriosa de la literatura
española, como: Alfonso, Compañy, Franzen, Juliá, Kaulak, Nicolás
Muller, Santos Yubero, o más cercanos a nosotros, como: Catalá-Roca o
Ramón Masats. El resultado de este proyecto supone un acercamiento, de
un modo ameno y didáctico, a uno de los capítulos más importantes de la
cultura española contemporánea, interesando no sólo a los aficionados a
la fotografía y la literatura, sino al gran público.
Es una oportunidad única para descubrir este ingente legado documental y disfrutar del diálogo en el tiempo y en el espacio de las fotos de algunos de los grandes de la historia de la fotografía documental española como Jean Laurent, Otto Wunderlich, Eustasio Villanueva, Aurelio de Colmenares y Orgaz, el Conde de Polentinos, António Passaporte, Loty, Luis Escobar, Pedro Ibarra y Cristina García Rodero.
Pues bien, en la primera de ellas, la fotografía antigua, original, es más bien escasa, apenas un 10% del material expuesto, el resto impresiones digitales.
En la segunda de ellas, la del Museo Nacional de Antropología no hay ninguna fotografía antigua todo son impresiones digitales actuales de mediano y gran tamaño ( en relación con el tamaño original)
- Y aquí viene mi queja:
¿Es esto foto antigua? Pues pienso que no. La foto antigua, máxime si hablamos del primer periodo, la antigua como tal 1850 -1920 tiene un formato,estado de conservación, color, textura que le dan sus características de identidad.
Si utilizamos los medios técnicos actuales para hacer formatos grandes donde el color y textura desvirtúan completamente lo que es una foto antigua lo menos que se puede pedir es que, en la información de las exposiciones informen de tal circunstancia.
En realidad son exposiciones didácticas, para atraer a gente, y en ese sentido bienvenidas sean.
- Ahora bien, si son para informar o formar a la gente no lo veo correcto.
La gente va a pensar que la foto que ve en las mismas, en estas salas, es la foto "correcta" de esa época y no entenderá siquiera la razón de que el álbum de su abuelo solo tenga fotos "pequeñas".
Es como si vamos al Prado a ver los cuadros.....en carteles del mismo tamaño.
Es como si vamos al Bernabéu a ver el partido en una pantalla.
Es falsear la realidad y por eso no lo veo bien.......como siempre digo es simple opinión personal.
Por eso repito mi propuesta:
En exposiciones de fotos antiguas sin fotos antiguas. AVISEN POR FAVOR
En (google translate)
This is one of the times you do not know whether to write a post to give your opinion or simply better to spend it.
The title of the post I think explains the situation perfectly.
Exhibition of old photographs without old photograph. Vintage photo exhibitions without vintage photos.
There are two exhibitions in Madrid, in principle, worth seeing.
In Sala Alcalá 31
THE FACE OF THE LETTERS. Writers and photographers in Spain from Romanticism to the Generation of 1914.
The exhibition also is a tribute to great photographers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, which witnessed a golden age of Spanish literature, as Alfonso, Compañy, Franzen, Julia, Kaulak, Nicolas Muller, Santos Yubero or nearby to us, such as: Catala-Roca and Ramón Masats. The result of this project is an approach, in an entertaining and educational way, one of the most important chapters of contemporary Spanish culture, interesting not only to fans of photography and literature, but to the general public.
Intangible: Heritage and Collective Memory. National Museum of Anthropology.
It is a unique opportunity to explore this vast documentary legacy and enjoy the dialogue in time and space of the photos from some of the greats of Spanish documentary photography as Jean Laurent, Otto Wunderlich, Eustasio Villanueva, Aurelio de Colmenares and Orgaz, Count Polentinos António Passport, Loty, Luis Escobar, Pedro Ibarra and Cristina García Rodero.
Well, in the first one, the old, original, photography is rather low, only 10% of the exposed material.
In the second one, the National Museum of Anthropology no old photograph all fingerprints are current medium and large (relative to the original size)
And here's my complaint:
Is this old photo? Well, I think not. The old photograph, especially if we talk about the first period, the old 1850 -1920 as such has a format, condition, color, texture characteristics that give identity
If we use current technology to large formats where color and texture completely undermine what is an old photo at least we can ask is that information on exposures to report that fact.
They are really educational exhibitions to attract people, and in that sense are welcome.
Now if they are to inform or educate the people do not see it right.
People will think that the picture you see in them, in these rooms, it is the "right" picture of that time, not even you will understand why her grandfather album only has "small" pictures.
It's like going to the Prado to see pictures on posters ..... the same size.
It's like going to the stadium to watch the game on one screen.
You distort reality and why not look good ....... as I always say it's just personal opinion.
So I repeat my proposal:
In exhibition of old photos without old photos. PLEASE NOTIFY
The title of the post I think explains the situation perfectly.
Exhibition of old photographs without old photograph. Vintage photo exhibitions without vintage photos.
There are two exhibitions in Madrid, in principle, worth seeing.
In Sala Alcalá 31
THE FACE OF THE LETTERS. Writers and photographers in Spain from Romanticism to the Generation of 1914.
The exhibition also is a tribute to great photographers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, which witnessed a golden age of Spanish literature, as Alfonso, Compañy, Franzen, Julia, Kaulak, Nicolas Muller, Santos Yubero or nearby to us, such as: Catala-Roca and Ramón Masats. The result of this project is an approach, in an entertaining and educational way, one of the most important chapters of contemporary Spanish culture, interesting not only to fans of photography and literature, but to the general public.
Intangible: Heritage and Collective Memory. National Museum of Anthropology.
It is a unique opportunity to explore this vast documentary legacy and enjoy the dialogue in time and space of the photos from some of the greats of Spanish documentary photography as Jean Laurent, Otto Wunderlich, Eustasio Villanueva, Aurelio de Colmenares and Orgaz, Count Polentinos António Passport, Loty, Luis Escobar, Pedro Ibarra and Cristina García Rodero.
Well, in the first one, the old, original, photography is rather low, only 10% of the exposed material.
In the second one, the National Museum of Anthropology no old photograph all fingerprints are current medium and large (relative to the original size)
And here's my complaint:
Is this old photo? Well, I think not. The old photograph, especially if we talk about the first period, the old 1850 -1920 as such has a format, condition, color, texture characteristics that give identity
If we use current technology to large formats where color and texture completely undermine what is an old photo at least we can ask is that information on exposures to report that fact.
They are really educational exhibitions to attract people, and in that sense are welcome.
Now if they are to inform or educate the people do not see it right.
People will think that the picture you see in them, in these rooms, it is the "right" picture of that time, not even you will understand why her grandfather album only has "small" pictures.
It's like going to the Prado to see pictures on posters ..... the same size.
It's like going to the stadium to watch the game on one screen.
You distort reality and why not look good ....... as I always say it's just personal opinion.
So I repeat my proposal:
In exhibition of old photos without old photos. PLEASE NOTIFY