Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/08/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Went to a photo exhibition yesterday that really impressed me. It was from a collection of photos of Spain commissioned by the Hispanic Society of America during the first 2-3 decades of the 20th century. I had never heard of the Society (founded by Archer Milton Huntington in New York in 1908, a rich guy with an interest in the country) nor of most of the photographers. The one whose work particularly impressed me was Ruth Matilda Anderson (1893-1983), whose photographs of people in 1920s Spain in my view is AT LEAST on par with the best work by Dorothea Lange and the other FSA photographers. A small taste is here (sorry, in Spanish only): http://www.uclm.es/ceclm/fotografia_hispanic/fotografos/matilda_anderson.htm For me anyway, her photos were a revelation. Cheers, Nathan Nathan Wajsman Alicante, Spain http://www.frozenlight.eu http://www.greatpix.eu http://www.nathanfoto.com PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ YNWA