- Artist:
- Miguel Font
- Date:
- 1995
- Technique:
- Black and white photograph, pigment inks on inkjet photo paper laminated and mounted on aluminium composite
- Dimensions:
- 70 x 100 cm
- Origin:
- Es Baluard Museu d'Art Contemporani de Palma
- Registration number:
- 737
- Edition:
- Edition 1/3
Produced in ten-day period, the photographs belonging to his “Palma” series, dedicated to his home town, capture different settings around the city, proving that whilst these places have hardly changed over time, people have. Whilst the urban spaces and buildings retain the same appearance, the people mutate and parade through a seemingly similar set.
Squares, avenues or narrow streets in the city’s historic centre are captured by the Mallorcan photographer in his search for unusual details and also for things commonplace, routine, a kind of intangible time which sticks like a parasite to the walls of that which is real. For Font, the photographer’s real work takes place before deciding how to compose the photo and during its composition, never afterwards; he captures the expressions and gestures of the people he portrays as in this case, a group snapshot featuring a group of nuns walking in silent procession during a liturgical ritual along a street in the historic city centre of Palma de Mallorca.
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After training as a photographer at the Richter-Elisava school in Barcelona, he returned to Palma de Mallorca, where he set up a studio and has lived ever since. Aside from his facet as an artist, he has also worked on advertising and illustration projects and collaborated with artists, art galleries and communications media. On a technical level, Font produces a large part of his photographic work in black and white, using Kodak Tri-X A film to attain contract and definition.
He never manipulates his photos; their composition is exactly as this Mallorcan photographer decides before shooting, along the purest lines of documentary photographers. Font develops his work around people, anonymous faces portrayed in everyday scenes, as is reflected in his series devoted to cities like Palma, Havana or Tel Aviv, his most recent project.
He has published the book “Cuba/Mallorca. Pasión en blanco y negro” (1999) with writer Miquel Segura, and held individual exhibitions in different art centres on the island: Centre de Cultura de Sa Nostra (1989), Col·legi d’Arquitectes de les Balears COAB (1989), Galerias Costa (1994), Galeria Mediterrània (2001), Casal Solleric (2004) and Casa Museo Joaquín Torrens Lladó (2011).
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