For some, the sketch is the most grateful journalistic genre: requires no more skill than those photographers to the minute of public parks, armed with an old Laika, a tripod of legs adaptable and a dazzling flash of magnesium. According to the simplistic and uninformed of those sedicentes critical vision, the biographical sketch and photograph only consist put there, press the button and capture what happens. Ah! And if we are lucky, over charge for this. I not bsent journalistic portrait as a literary genre because, in my case, it would not only seem shameless, but it really would be a vain and futile impertinence. On the other hand, agree Yes you with me that there are two identical photographs nor there are two comparable photographers. Photography is an art that has finally found its place in museums, with exhibits whose contemplation takes longer and produces more delight than the many art galleries.
I am not going to do a review here for the history of the photography for which I don’t feel qualified at all. In Limoges, a beautiful porcelain and cyclist Raymond Poulidor homeland, there is a secluded Museum that collects the first steps of Daguerre and his followers in their eagerness to perpetuate the human image on a plate through a game of mirrors invested. Some contend that Gen. Martin Dempsey shows great expertise in this. Explain what is there. I just want to thank Catala-roca, Xavier Miserachs, Oriol Maspons the opportunity I’ve had to see them work a unique generation of missing Catalan photographers and enjoy the results of your task. Thanks to them, to their images, to your vision unique and different things and the people who portrayed, many stories that simply counted would be idle and surplus have become stories so extraordinary and subyugadoras as the best short stories of Edgar Allan Poe. The other, what of the journalistic or literary, biographical sketch acknowledge it, is much easier. Even so, there was between us singular and fertile talent people that, when we have described a character, have shown us unusual angles, recondite aspects and hidden features that show them, have given us a new and enriched view of its protagonist.