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Daido Moriyama – Color

Color

Daidō Moriyama | 2016 marks a key stage in the author's career, known mainly for his work in black and white. In these images he applies his characteristic style, loaded with rawness and fragmentation. He explores chaos, desire and the ephemerality of contemporary life, while maintaining a provocative gaze on Japan's urban landscape.

12 obras

Tod Papageorge – Sin título

Studio 54, New York

Tod Papageorge | 1970s It documents the vibrant and controversial nightlife of the iconic New York club Studio 54. It captures the moments of disinhibition, glamour and excess that defined the place, where celebrity and spontaneity merged. It reflects on the relationship between identity, spectacle and freedom in one of the most emblematic periods of the city.

70 obras

The Gorbals, Glasgow, Scotland 1968 Series

5 obras

1993

Juliao Sarmento | 1993 Explores themes of the human figure, desire and intimacy through a series that combines photography, painting and drawing. With a visual approach that plays with ambiguity, she invites the viewer to reflect on the nature of perception and representation.

7 obras

1993

Juliao Sarmento | 1993 Explores themes of the human figure, desire and intimacy through a series that combines photography, painting and drawing. With a visual approach that plays with ambiguity, she invites the viewer to reflect on the nature of perception and representation.

7 obras

Manolo Laguillo - Sin título

Cadiz Shipyard

Manolo Laguillo | 1990 Born from a commission received together with other photographers such as Koldo Chamorro, Manel Esclusa, Joan Fontcuberta, Cristina García Rodero, Ramón Masats and Félix Lorrio. Laguillo was interested in the great structures of shipbuilding, but on this occasion he wanted to approach and photograph the workers in their context, next to these great constructions.

8 obras

Jonas Mekas – Sin título

Flowers

Jonas Mekas | 1968 Experimental film that reflects on nature and the passage of time, capturing the ephemerality of flowers. Fragmented in small series of still images, the author composes a visual diary in which the everyday becomes poetry.

40 obras

Karl Blossfeldt – Equisetum hiemale. Winter-

Unformen der Kunst

Karl Blossfeldt - 1928 Made up of the photographs that made up the album published under the same title, it shows images of plants that, due to their lighting, framing and quality of the paper and printing, highlight their sculptural and graphic power. This series became a visual reference for designers and artists linked to the Bauhaus, who found in nature a formal and structural model.

121 obras

Circulation

Takuma Nakahira | 1970s Documents urban life and social dynamics in Japan during the 1970s. With a direct and raw style, he captures fleeting moments of everyday life, focusing on the interaction between people and their environment. He reflects on the circulation of ideas, emotions and people in contemporary society, using photography to express the alienation and chaos inherent in modern life.

96 obras

José Guerrero (F) – Sin título

Chinle (dust storm), Arizona

José Guerrero (F) | 2011

12 obras

Nobuyoshi Araki – Sin título

Theater of Love

Nobuyoshi Araki | 1970 Made when he worked at the Dentsu agency, it shows intimate scenes of women, places and moments of his daily life. Nostalgic and personal, it reflects the beginning of his artistic vision, far from digital control and full of analogical emotion. For its development she experimented with different craft techniques.

16 obras

Imogen Cunningham – Two sisters 3

The Eye of Imogen Cunningham

Imogen Cunningham | 1910-1971 It reveals the photographer's unique ability to capture beauty in the everyday. She offers an in-depth look at nature, portraiture and experimental photography, using light and form to explore her subjects.

25 obras

Iñaki Bonillas – Sin título

The eyes

Iñaki Bonillas | 2010 It reflects on the human eye, not only as an organ of vision, but also as a means to explore identity and memory, bearers of stories, emotions and personal perceptions.

12 obras

Akira Sato – Sin título

Cyclopean Eye

Akira Satō | 1960s Series of portraits focusing on close-ups of women. With a graphic, intimate and stylized approach, he combines elements of fashion photography with an introspective exploration of the female figure. The portraits take on a sculptural and abstract quality, reflecting the subjective sensibility that would mark contemporary Japanese photography.

39 obras

Bleda y Rosa – Toulon

Prontuario. Notes on the War and the Revolution: I. Trafalgar

Bleda y Rosa | 2011-2013 Explores the historical period of the War of Independence in Spain, from 1805 to 1814, proposing new readings through the dialogue between text and image. Organized in five different folders: Trafalgar, Madrid, Gerona, Cádiz, Vitoria; it addresses popular uprisings and struggles for freedom and equality, reflecting on the construction and meaning of history.

9 obras

José Dávila – Sin título

You Talk About It But I Just Cant See It

José Dávila | 2011 Explores visual perception and representation in art. Through the technique of cutting, he eliminates iconic figures from his images, inviting the viewer to question the importance of content versus form and context. Reflects on the construction of meaning in contemporary visual culture.

17 obras

Paul Graham – Woman with golden face (New York) Nº 40

American Night

Paul Graham | 2000 Reflects on social inequalities in the United States, showing the other side of the well-known American dream. Through portraits of marginalized people, almost invisible to the majority, he denounces the collective indifference towards those who live in exclusion. He plays with light effects as a metaphor for social blindness, showing how poverty and inequality become everyday landscapes that many prefer not to see.

2 obras

Nobuyoshi Araki – Sin título

Flower Rondeau

Nobuyoshi Araki | 1997 He shows wilted flowers as a metaphor for Eros and Thanatos, central themes in his work. Inspired by the floral offerings he observed in his childhood near the Jyokanji temple in Tokyo, he turns the act of photographing flowers into a ritual of resurrection. The flowers, on the verge of decay, reveal an intense and ephemeral beauty, charged with sensuality and spirituality, with color combinations that create a "floral sex scene," as the artist describes.

119 obras

Edmund Clark - Plate 50. Naval Base

Guantanamo: If the light goes out

Edmund Clark | 2013 Documents the conditions in the Guantanamo prison through the structures, spaces and invisible traces of the prisoners. Reflects on human rights, surveillance and dehumanization in contexts of war.

70 obras

Mishka Henner – Cocktails

Less Americains Portfolio

Mishka Henner | 2016 It explores Robert Frank's iconic photobook The Americans. As a critical re-reading, the project reconfigures the original by erasing parts of its images, not as a destructive act, but as a way to create something new. Inspired by Robert Rauschenberg's gesture of erasing a drawing by Willem de Kooning, the author of Less Americains questions Frank's work, exploring how the power of the image has changed over time.

83 obras

Michio Harada

João Penalva | 2015 Explora la identidad y la cultura japonesa a través de la figura del pintor Michio Harada. Captura no solo la obra de Harada, sino también su proceso creativo y su entorno, creando una reflexión visual sobre el acto artístico y la relación entre l creador y su arte.

16 obras

Hans-Peter Feldmann – Sin título

Blumenbild

Hans-Peter Feldmann | 2006 It is part of an artistic practice focused on cataloguing and repetition, addressing questions of archive and concept. It shows bouquets of flowers on neutral backgrounds, highlighting how the everyday can acquire aesthetic and narrative meaning through classification. Through kitsch style and seemingly simple aesthetics, she questions taste, art history and visual authority, playing with beauty, floral symbolism and viewer perception.

10 obras

Paul Graham – #8

End of an Age

Paul Graham | 1997 He captures the moments that mark the end of adolescence, that brief threshold between youthful carefreeness and the awareness of adulthood. In his portraits of young people, lucidity and the desire to escape coexist. The series reflects on a stage marked by trauma, uncertainty and transformation.

4 obras

Guantanamo: If the light goes out - Letters to Omar

Edmund Clark | 2010 It documents, through the scanning process, the copies of images and messages that Omar Deghayes received during the six years he was held at the Guantanamo Bay detention center. Words and images sent by his family and strangers from all over the world, which were delivered to him in scanned format as part of a control mechanism over his person.

62 obras

Akira Sato – Sin título

Woman

Akira Satō | 1950s-1960s Focused on portrait photography of women, she fuses sensuality, mystery and modernist aesthetics. She shows her models with tight frames and intense contrasts, emphasizing gestures, looks and fragments of the body. A subjective and idealized vision of the feminine, where desire and beauty are always present.

27 obras

Gabriele Basilico – Sin título

Bord de Mer

Gabriele Basilico | 1984 Photographic tour of beaches, seaside resorts, harbors and other uninhabited places where human presence is only intuited from the traces left behind and the structures created. Testimony of the transformation of the landscape in France in the eighties, it captures the tension between nature and urbanization, permanence and abandonment.

9 obras

Xavier Ribas – Sin título (Duchas)

Sundays

Xavier Ribas | 1994 Reflects on leisure time in peripheral spaces of the city of Barcelona, places of transition between the urban and the rural. Spaces that are not governed by urban logic and become scenarios for social creativity, giving rise to activities such as picnics, walks, resting, playing or napping.

11 obras

Robert Frank – Portfolio

Portfolio

Robert Frank | 1970s After a career marked by documentary style photography in black and white, which has made him one of the most important photographers of the twentieth century, he moved with his wife in the 70s to Nova Scotia, Canada. He began experimenting with a disposable camera, the results of which he combined with painting and writing, creating six unique collages.

6 obras

Ian Wallace – Sin título

The Almagro Series I-XII

12 obras

Yutaka Takanashi – Towards the City

Towards the City

Yutaka Takanashi | 1974 Documents the urban sprawl of Tokyo in the 1970s. With a direct and realistic approach, it captures the contrast between the accelerated growth of the city and the vestiges of its past, reflecting the transformation of the urban landscape and its impact on daily life.

9 obras

Anthony Hernández – Sin título

Rodeo Drive

Anthony Hernandez | 1984 Documents life on the iconic Beverly Hills avenue in the early 1980s. With a seemingly dispassionate gaze, it captures passersby shrouded in luxury, subtly revealing the social tensions, economic disparity and racial divide of the era. He turns this iconic space into a stage where the complexity of urban dynamics and the contrasts of the American dream become evident.

41 obras

Bleda y Rosa – Covadonga

Battlefields. Spain

Bleda y Rosa | 1994-1999 He portrays landscapes marked by history, linked to conflict and death. It approaches the landscape from contemplation and consciousness, interpreting the traces of the place and our memory. Organized in three blocks -Spain, Europe and Overseas-, the series reflects on the historical and geographical construction of nations over time.

21 obras

Aaron Siskind – Pleasures and Terrors of Levitation Nº 127

Pleasures and Terrors of Levitation

Aaron Siskind | 1953-1961 Photographs bathers on Chicago's Oak Street Beach, cropping them against the sky. Without knowing exactly what he was photographing, he saw in these portraits how the bodies seemed to levitate as if in a dream, an aspect that interested him and which he explored in this series.

9 obras

Sin título - Garry Winogrand

15 Big Shots

Garry Winogrand | 1983 Portfolio of fifteen photographs portraying important political and cultural personalities. Subjects include John F. Kennedy, Marilyn Monroe, Andy Warhol, Diane Arbus or Lyndon Johnson, among others.

15 obras

Noritoshi Hirakawa – Isabel and Adriana

Unión de... (The Completion of Casa Barragán)

Noritoshi Hirakawa | 2012 Explores the interaction between the human body and the architecture of the Casa Estudio Luis Barragán in Mexico City. It integrates dancers into the structure of the building, using dance as a means to visualize the relationship between space and the human being.

71 obras

FOS Sector 80, 1980

Lewis Baltz | 1986 Documents the industrial landscape of Fos-sur-Mer, in the south of France. Commissioned by the DATAR Photographic Mission, it reflects the transformation of the natural environment due to industrial expansion, adopting a minimalist and conceptual approach. It captures subtle variations in seemingly empty terrains, highlighting the uniformity and absence of human elements.

21 obras

Ricardo Rangel – LM

Pao nosso de cada noite (Our Nightly bread)

Ricardo Rangel | 1969 Documents the harsh living conditions in the peripheral areas of Mozambique during the 1970s. Through a committed and realistic look, he captures the daily life of people in contexts of poverty and struggle, highlighting human resilience in the face of adversity. It reflects on issues of hunger, inequality and the dignity of the underprivileged classes in a context of social and political conflict.

5 obras

Series 89-91 Sites of Technology

Lewis Baltz | 1989-1991 The author's first large-scale color series, where the empty interiors of offices and technological laboratories are shown with a cold and analytical aesthetic. The human absence and impersonal character of these spaces underline the growing distance between technologies and those who operate them. The everyday is transformed into something disturbing, revealing the silent undercurrent of the working environment in contemporary capitalist society.

7 obras

Daido Moriyama – Eros. Provoke Nº2

Eros. Provoke Nº2

Daidō Moriyama | 1972 First series with which he was part of the influential photographic magazine Provoke. Explores eroticism and the fragmented perception of the body and the city, using a visual language characteristic of the publication: blur, high grain and extreme contrasts.

2 obras

Dr. Blankman's New York

Tod Papageorge | 1966-1967 One of the few color works by a photographer whose career has been marked mainly by black and white. It documents the urban life of New York in the seventies through an intimate and personal look. With a focus on the everyday, he shows the streets of the city, its inhabitants and their moments of vulnerability, creating a visual reflection on society and the rhythm of New York life.

20 obras

Bleda y Rosa – El ballestero

Soccer fields

Bleda and Rosa | 1992-1995 It documents the passage of time through soccer fields. Spaces conceived for leisure and sport that, due to factors such as migration from the village to the city or urban expansion, are in the process of transformation or abandonment, reflecting today's society.

18 obras

Iñaki Bonillas – Sin título

A storm of secondary things

Iñaki Bonillas | 2012 He works on the concept of "secondary" from the photographic archive that the artist inherited from his grandfather. He searches in the background of these images for people and objects that are not part of the main action but were there. And, to present them, he uses three secondary colors: violet, orange and green.

25 obras

Double Elephant Portfolio

Walker Evans, Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Garry Winogrand and Lee Friedlander | 1973-1974 A key publication in documentary photography promoted by photographer Lee Friedlander and journalist and editor Burt Wolf. They selected fifteen photographs by four influential authors in twentieth century photography and established a visual dialogue between different photographic approaches, consolidating itself as a reference work in the medium.

64 obras

Lee Friedlander – Shadow. New York City

Double Elephant Portfolio. Lee Friedlander

Lee Friedlander | 1973-1974 A key publication in documentary photography promoted by photographer Lee Friedlander and journalist and editor Burt Wolf. They selected fifteen photographs by four influential photographers of the twentieth century, including Lee Friedlander himself, establishing a visual dialogue between different photographic approaches, consolidating it as a reference work in the medium.

16 obras

The San Trance Dance Series 1959

Jürgen Schadeberg | 1959 Documents the exorcism dance performed in the Kalahari Desert on the African continent, a ritual trance ceremony that drives out evil spirits and throws them into the fire as an act of purification.

10 obras

Timm Rautert – Sin título

Crazy Horse I

Timm Rautert | 1976 Documents the world of the famous cabaret The Crazy Horse, in Paris, commissioned by the German magazine ZEITmagazin. Through a documentary approach, it captures the dance, sensuality and staging of the performers, but also highlights the dynamics of power and exhibition in these spaces. It reflects on the body, spectacle and representation in a context of seduction and glamour.

30 obras

Photographs of thought

Armando Salas Portugal | 1967-1971   He explores mental strength through his skills in the field of chemistry and photography, with the power of meditation and thought. The result, a set of abstract images in black and white and color, which I call "Numinal Photography" or "Thought Photography".

23 obras

Juan del Junco – Sin título

Spoliation

Juan del Junco | 2016 It explores the biography of plants through the details of their leaves and the marks they present -holes, insect bites, fungal stains, etc.-, a work that embraces the artistic and scientific gaze.

18 obras