'Barcelona Photographic Memory', the new immersive experience by Ideal.
The Digital Arts Center of Barcelona, IDEAL, returns to the fray with a new immersive experience to travel to the past. A couple of weeks ago the successful Monet exhibition ended, where more than 125,000 people have passed, and now they return with the work of six great Catalan photographers who immortalized two decades in the city, the 50s and 60s.
This virtual reality experience with projections and interactive proposals collects the work of Francesc Catalan-Roca (1922-1998), Oriol Maspons (1928-2013), Leopoldo Pomes (1931-2019), Joana Biarnes (1935-2018), Xavier Miserachs (1937-1998) and tail (1940). In it you can see some of his best pieces in large format and at 360º in a space of 2,000 m2.
Relive an unprecedented experience.
The 50s and 60s were a moment of transformation and modernization for Barcelona after post-war years . The city opened up to the world through photography and the international press. Women would begin to occupy professions that until now had been relegated to men, such as photography.
A faithful example of this time are the images of the photojournalist Joana Biarnes , the first Spanish photographer to access the Beatles in person. These same photos can be seen in Ideal and she herself told it in the documentary 'One among all' reviewing her trajectory.
Biarnés remembers how she managed to sneak into the hotel where the Beatles were staying in Barcelona and enter, nothing more and nothing less, than in her suite. She was lucky enough to photograph them there as no one had done so far in our country.
The photographers of the time, who have been selected in the exhibition, are the reflection of a generation that tried to merge documentary photography with artistic photography, influenced by the European avant-garde currents of the early twentieth century, **where creativity and gaze staff to portray reality were the most important. **