Masterclass "Charles Clifford and the monumental record of Spain".

  Tuesday 30 Sep
  19:00 h

- Free admission with prior withdrawal of invitation until full capacity is reached.
- Curators: Javier Piñar and Carlos Sánchez

The image of Spain during the 19th century cannot be conceived without the figure of the British photographer Charles Clifford (1819-1863), a pioneer in using photography as a novel instrument for the international projection of the image of our country. He belongs to the generation of early professional photographers who used the calotype as a tool for research and projection of new themes and forms of expression. Passionate about the expressive possibilities offered by the new photographic technology, they opened new paths to connect it closely with the modernization actions that marked the present and also with the cult of the past that fed the nationalist discourses, masterfully expressed in the graphic inventory of its monumental heritage.