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![Walker Evans<br />
[Subway Passengers, New York], 1938<br />
Impresión vintage en gelatina de plata<br />
Colección privada, San Francisco<br />
© Walker Evans Archive, The Metropolitan Museum of Art](https://kbr.fundacionmapfre.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/walker-evans-768x508-1.jpg "Walker Evans")
Walker Evans
[Subway Passengers, New York], 1938
Vintage gelatin silver print
Private Collection, San Francisco
© Walker Evans Archive, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Walker Evans:
Now and Then
From February 26 to May 24, 2026
Walker Evans (1903–1975) is a central figure in modern photography and one of the great visual chroniclers of twentieth-century United States. His images, seemingly simple yet deeply complex, depict with clarity everyday life, urban landscapes, and the anonymous faces of a country in transformation. A pioneer of Documentary Photography, Evans combined a direct and austere gaze with an inexhaustible curiosity about the signs of popular culture, which allowed him to define an era while simultaneously questioning it.
The exhibition Walker Evans: Now and Then, curated by David Campany, Creative Director of the International Center of Photography in New York, offers a broad overview of his work and its lasting influence on generations of artists. It brings together key photographs and projects spanning his entire career — from self-portraits of the 1920s to his Polaroid experiments in the 1970s — along with books and periodical publications that reflect his tireless observational capacity. Together, the works reveal a creator who not only documented the world around him but also invited viewers to question the nature of photography and the perception of reality itself.
Carlos Pérez Siquier
La Chanca, Almería, 1960
Later print, silver gelatin
© Pérez Siquier, VEGAP, Barcelona, 2026
PÉREZ SIQUIER
Fundación MAPFRE Collections
From February 26 to May 24, 2026
Carlos Pérez Siquier (Almería, 1930–2021) was a central figure in Spanish photography and one of the major innovators of twentieth-century visual language. From his hometown, where he lived his entire life, he developed a modern and poetic body of work that reflects, with sensitivity and irony, the social and cultural transformations of Spain through an anthropological perspective. A pioneer of color photography and, together with José María Artero, founder of the Agrupación Fotográfica Almeriense and the magazine AFAL, he played a decisive role in establishing photography as an artistic discipline.
The exhibition PÉREZ SIQUIER. Fundación MAPFRE Collections brings together a significant selection of the artist’s works, added to the institution’s photography archive in 2022. Presented at the KBr Photo Center in Barcelona, it revives the major retrospective that had to close prematurely due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Through emblematic series such as La Chanca, Informalismos, and La Playa, the exhibition traces Pérez Siquier’s transition from black-and-white to color photography, highlighting his singular vision, his capacity to transform the everyday into the extraordinary, and his decisive contribution to Spanish photographic modernity.