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Agustí Centelles |
Written 30 January |
Tuesday 09 June, 12:00Jeu de Paume (l'Hôtel de Sully), 75008 [map]Agustí Centelles
This exhibition retraces the career of Catalan photographer Agustí Centelles (Valencia, Spain, 1909-Barcelona, 1985) between 1936 and 1939, including his experience of the Spanish Civil War and his internment in the Bram camp in France.
A renowned photojournalist in the troubled pre-war period, Centelles reacted to the putsch of the Extreme Right by joining the Democratic defence effort in 1936. In 1937 he was taken on by the government propaganda office, becoming one of the great image-makers of the Republican resistance.
Like thousands of other Spaniards, he went into exile in 1939. He was interned in the Bram refugee camp, where he continued to take photographs despite the extremely difficult conditions. When he decided to flee occupied France and make his way secretly back into Spain, he was forced to hide several thousand negatives in a house in Carcassonne in order to protect the identities of people who might have been recognised by Franco’s police. Forty years later, after Caudillo’s death, Centelles returned to France and reclaimed many of his archives.
The exhibition presents some hundred photographs, taken during the Civil War and during the nine months at Bram. Most have never been seen in France. There is also a collection of documents (magazines, letters and notebooks).
| What: | Agustí Centelles |
| When: | Tuesday 09 June, 12:00 |
| Where: | Jeu de Paume (l'Hôtel de Sully), 62, rue Saint-Antoine 75008 [map] |
| Transport: | Saint Paul/Bastille |
| Cost: | 2,50-5EUR |
| Phone: | 01 42 74 47 75 |
| Web: | www.jeudepaume.org |
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