POMÉS, Leopoldo - Barcelona. 1957

Background information

"With a versatile personality embracing cinema, advertising or restaurant management, Leopoldo POMÉS became known as a photographer in 1955 when he presented in the Galeries Laietanes of Barcelona (where the most important avant-garde exhibitions of the time were held) a display of photographs which broke with what had been seen until then and attracted the enthusiasm of some and uttered outrage exclamations from others. (...) In 1957, Carlos Barral, the legendary editor of Seix Barral, commissioned Leopoldo POMÉS a photo-book about his city, Barcelona. Although they were very enthusiastic about the result, the publishing project was never carried out. More than fifty years later, the Foto Colectania Foundation and La Fabrica recovered with 'Barcelona. 1957' a unique photographic work.

Content

This photographic volume 'Barcelona. 1957' by Leopoldo POMÉS begins with a conversation between two of the persons that best know Barcelona: the famous Spanish writer Eduardo Mendoza and the Spanish photographer, one of the most mythical photographer of Barcelona. The book contains about eighty black and white photographs, some of them turned into icons of the work by Leopoldo POMÉS, and others unpublished. The book is completed with a conversation between the author, Leopoldo POMÉS, and the writer Eduardo Mendoza, and includes also texts by the director of the Foto Colectania Foundation, Pepe Font de Mora, and the writer and art critic Juan Manuel Bonet." (© La Fabrica, 2012)

About Spanish photographer, Leopoldo POMÉS (b. 1931)

Photo books by as well with works by Leopoldo POMÉS