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More Photographic Spring

La chambre claire, 1980

Punctum.* Wounding, personally touching detail in a photograph.

Roland Barthes

More Photographic Spring

Primavera Fotogràfica, or Photographic Spring, was a biennial event created by a group of photographers, galleries and cultural centres in Barcelona to promote photography as a means of expression. It was the first step towards cultural recognition of photography. It has been 42 years since the initiative was created and 20 since it disappeared, but it left behind an immense legacy of documents that is worth sharing, given its great success in drawing crowds to public institutions, private entities, galleries and art schools around Catalonia in its 12 editions.

Organitzadors de la Primavera Fotogràfica 1986 a la Llibreria Tartessos. D’esquerra a dreta: Pere Roca, Joan Fontcuberta, Humberto Rivas i Albert Soler. Al mig: Ferran Freixa, Cristina Zelich i Marta Gili. A primera fila: Pere Formiguera i Josep Rigol.