2007 Imatges metropolitanes de la nova Barcelona

Millions of photographs have captured Barcelona's ongoing metamorphosis since the 1980s, but very few of these images have carved out a place in the collective memory and imaginary. There is still a need for images of our times, images that help us to objectify the major transformations of the present, and allow us to hone our intuitions on the Barcelona of the future.

The selection of images published here is part of a photographic study of the city carried out between 2007 and 2008. The study focuses on the polarities of Barcelona's metamorphosis, and is structured around three main themes: Work and Authorities, Convergences and Dispersions and Representations.

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Allan Sekula
Erie
1951
Allan Sekula was born in Erie, Pennsylvania, in 1959, and was based in Los Angeles from 1985 until his death in 2013. He began his adult life in the years of protest against the Vietnam War, studying Marxists thinkers such as Herbert Marcuse, and went on to revitalise the American tradition of documentary photography and social criticism as an artist and a theorist. He began making installations but gradually shifted towards photography and text essays, which allow him to analyse capitalist logic in a global world and the traffic of human beings for the purpose of labour. His strong commitment to production and how it shapes our bodies and the way we live has led him to photograph the employees of large factories and shipping companies. Part of his work has focused on the sea as a forgotten space, in which the international trade of the big multinationals plays out the savage logic of capital.
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