Series
Protest Against Racism with Jean Paul Sartre, 1971
1971: Djellali Ben Ali, 15, was killed by the caretaker of his building in the Goutte d’Or in Paris.
Daily Life, 1955-1965
Vieitez documented the different episodes, either solemn or common, of the daily life in his countryside.
Paris, 1965
"The pictures of a lost Paris does not call up our nostalgia but revive our curiosity and support our interest as a document..."
Passport Photographs (1955-1965)
Vieitez made hundreds of passport photographs when the ID card became compulsory in 1962.
Japon, 1963
Christer Strömholm travelled to Japan to photograph, in a sober and sparse expression, the faces of the victims of the Hiroshima disaster.
America, 1963
On her journey around the world, Christer Strömholm travelled to some of the major cities in the United States between 1962 and 1963.
Children, 1963
Christer Strömholm's images of children, so far removed from the charm and anecdote that made the success of "French romanticism" so successful, are both generous and respectful and of infinite sadness.
Portraits of Artists, 1962
Strömholm is very interested in art history and is very close to contemporary artists. He makes numerous portraits and discovers that he possesses a particular talent « to break through the shell of the artists ».
Mobile Circus, 1959
Virxilio Vieitez had models posed outdoors because he found the studio boring and he installed them firmly to compose images that he immortalized by saving film to the point of never taking more than two shots of the same motif.
Spain, 1959
Series | At the end of the 1650s, Christer Strömholm made many trips to Spain, including Palma de Mallorca, Barcelona and Madrid, where he was a guide for the first major tourist waves.