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RANIERO FERNÁNDEZ AND GALICIAN PHOTOGRAPHY. SEMINAR ON PHOTOGRAPHY

30 November 2022 - 03 December 2022
from 6.30 pm to 8.30 pm
CGAC Auditorium
Coordination:
Carmen Hermo
Directorate:
Manuel Sendón and Xosé Luís Suárez Canal
Seats:
Free access until full capacity is reached

The decades of the nineteen-fifties and sixties were the golden age for photography associations within which all non-professional photographic activity was carried out. Raniero Fernández was the chairman of the most active group, the Agrupación Fotográfica Gallega, but his photographs did not achieve important awards in competitions as they failed to adhere to the pictorialist aesthetic that prevailed in such events. Nonetheless, his work is of great value today.

In this seminar, we will be looking at the meaning of his images from a contemporary perspective, although to be understood in greater detail they need to be contextualised within their time. Therefore, we will analyse the aesthetic conceptions and the dynamic that characterised the photography associations as well as the images of the group’s most relevant photographers, such as García Ferrer, Francisco Losada, Schmidt de las Heras, Ricard Terré, Luis Zamora or Veiga Roel.

Programme:

30 November

Raniero Fernández. The archive

Analysis of Raniero Fernández’s work from a current perspective, contextualising it within the world of photography associations.

Session conducted by Manuel Sendón and Xosé Luís Suárez Canal.

 

1 December

The photographic archive and art

Popular photography and the documentary style. Movements towards the field of art: the case of Virxilio Vieitez.

Session conducted by Manuel Sendón.

 

2 December

Visions of Galicia through photography

Analysis of the proposals of different photographic works ranging from ethnographic anthropologic visions to documentary-style works.

Session conducted by Xosé Luís Suárez Canal.

 

3 December

11:00 h Guided tour of the exhibition

Exhibition of the successive methodology for the study of Raniero Fernández’s and other renowned photographers’ archives. Analysis of the configuration of the exhibition and the technical processes it required.

Session conducted by Manuel Sendón and Xosé Luís Suárez Canal.

Given by:

Manuel Sendón and Xosé Luís Suárez Canal manage the Centro de Estudos Fotográficos and have been jointly curating projects since 1984. They directed the Fotobienal, the Vigovisións project, and the Sala dos Peiraos, and curated a significant number of exhibitions of both contemporary and historical photography, including exhibitions of the work of the Galician photographers Manuel Ferrol, Ksado, José María Massó, José Suárez and Virxilio Vieitez, publishing a monograph on each one. They have also published more than forty photography books, among which feature those brought together in the Álbum and Do Trinque collections (devoted to contemporary photography).

Manuel Sendón (A Coruña, 1951) is a Mathematics graduate and has a PhD in Fine Arts. He was a professor in Pontevedra’s Faculty of Fine Arts for 28 years and directed Vigo University’s Photographic Research Group. In 1998, Edicións Xerais published his book Imaxes na penumbra. A fotografía afeccionada en Galicia (1950-1965).

As a photographer, he published the books Cuspindo a barlovento, Casas doentes, Derradeira sesión and Espantallos, among others. His work is included in collections such as those in the CGAC, the MNCARS, the Community of Madrid, the Encontros da Imagem Festival of Braga or Japan’s Maraugame Hiraide Museum.

Xosé Luís Suárez Canal (Allariz, Ourense, 1946) is a Philosophy and Arts graduate and a secondary school teacher of French. He was an Associate Professor of Photography in Santiago de Compostela University’s Faculty of Communication Sciences for 11 years. He takes part in different conferences as a guest speaker and in photography festivals as a portfolio critic. He was a member of the advisory board of the Círculo de Bellas Artes’ Sala Minerva in 1990 and the advisory and selection committee of the Cuatro direcciones project (Madrid, 1991). He was also a member of the jury for the first edition of the Ministry of Culture’s National Photography Award in 1994.

 

Target group:

Teachers, students, historians and anyone interested in photography, art and anthropology.

Registration:

Free and unlimited access