Upcoming
Exhibitions

Minor White

June 17 – September 6

Minor White (Minneapolis, 1908–1976) was a key figure in twentieth‑century American photography, both for his innovative photographic work and for his important role as an educator at prestigious institutions such as the California School of Fine Arts, the George Eastman House, and MIT. Through his editorial work as co‑founder, editor, and director of Aperture magazine, he was also positioned at the center of the American photographic debate in the second half of the century.

This exhibition —the first retrospective of his work to be organized in Europe— offers a comprehensive overview of his oeuvre, featuring his most representative themes (nature photography, portraiture, and street photography) and with special attention to his work with sequences, which he often presented in portfolio format. Some of these are being shown in Europe for the first time. A selection of documents —contact sheets, books, and magazines— ultimately provides an integrated view of Minor White’s dimension as an author, editor, and curator.

Curator: Carlos Gollonet (Chief Curator of Photography at Fundación Mapfre)

Joaquín Tusquets de Cabirol

The eloquent form

June 17 – September 6

Joaquín Tusquets de Cabirol (Barcelona, 1904–1979) grew up in a well‑to‑do family environment that provided him with an education attuned to art and culture, which undoubtedly helped shape his photographic sensibility. A chemist and industrialist by profession, he found in photography a means to express a lucid, aesthetic and profound view of his surroundings. His images, which offer a unique vision of post‑war Catalonia, stand out for their evolution from pictorialism toward formal and technical experimentation, while the exceptional quality of his prints is owed to his mastery of chemical developing processes.

The exhibition, organized by Fundación Mapfre in collaboration with the Photographic Social Vision Foundation, the institution that safeguards and preserves the photographer’s archive, forms part of KBr’s ongoing commitment to showcasing photography collections held in Catalan institutions.

Curators: Marina Balagué and Arola Valls