XAVIER MISERACHS

'El Born, Barcelona, 1962', printed 1988

Details

XAVIER MISERACHS
'El Born, Barcelona, 1962', printed 1988
Gelatin silver print, image size 15¼ x 21½ in., signed, titled and dated in ink in margin, signed, dated and annotated with technical details in pencil and with ink stamp Copia positivada per Manuel Serra...Barcelona on verso, matted, credited, titled and dated in pencil on mount.

Literature

Miserachs, Xavier Miserachs, Un Segon i 25 Centímetres, p. 47 (illus.); Mondéjar, Fotografía y sociedad en la España de Franco, p. 189 (illus.)

Lot Essay

Miserachs was born in Barcelona in 1937. In 1952 he came into contact with Oriol Maspons and two years later he abandoned his studies in medicine to dedicate himself fully to photography. In 1957, he exhibited for the first time. From 1966 he collaborated with La Actualidad Española and two years later he served as the European correspondant for Triunfo. His work has been exhibited in Spain and Belgium.

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