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Carlos Pérez de Rozas (1893–1954)

A polite and conservative person, dedicated one hundred percent to his work, Carlos Pérez de Rosas Masdeu was the founder and patriarch of one of the most important photo-journalistic dynasties of this profession's history in Barcelona. Born in Madrid in 1893, at the heart of an upper class family very closely connected to intellectual, political and military circles, he started to work at an age of 17 at the newspaper Las Notícias, where he carried out all sorts of assistant tasks.

Joan Andreu Puig Farran (1904–1982)

Joan Andreu Puig Farran was born in Belianes (Lleida) in 1904. At the end of the decade of the 20s, and for reasons that we do not know, he left Lleida with his family and settled in Barcelona, where he developed his career as a photojournalist in the context of the Universal Exhibition. He was one of the most active photojournalists during the Second Republic and the Spanish Civil War.

Joan Rovira (1895–1930)

Joan Rovira was born in Sants (Barcelona) in 1895 and died suddenly of a heart attack  at the age of only thirty-five years.

Fernando Rus Busquets (1871–1914)

The Rus family were pioneers in photography in Barcelona, from the 1880s until the second decade of the 20th century. Purveyors of photography products, they also experimented with photographic techniques and materials and were photographers and cinematograph operators.

Josep Maria Sagarra (1885–1959)

A hard-working, elegant and seductive man, he held an important place in the graphic scene of Barcelona during the 20es and 30es. His professional life -more than 40 years in practise- is one of the largest and most prolific amongst the photo-journalists of his times. From the so-called Tragic Week (1909) to the Civil War his camera was a privileged testimony, always in the street, of the main historical events that marked the day-to-day of the city.

Pablo Luís Torrents (1893–1966)

The everlasting migrant. From Uruguay to Barcelona; forced to exile in France in 1939 and later on in Uruguay; on the way to Argentine and returned to Uruguay. And an unfulfilled dream: returning to the Catalan capital that he missed so much and where he lived out his outstanding photo-journalistic career. He established himself with the Universal Exposition of 1929, and portrayed sporting activities as well as the cultural and political life, especially for various publications of Madrid. In full swing during the war when he was assigned a job that would mark him forever: document the bombings graphically.

Hermenegild Vallvé (1893–1973)

The spread of images of Tarragona in the press beginning in the first decade of the 20th century is closely linked to the Vallvé family, who, between father and son, had a career in photojournalism spanning 100 years.

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