Oriol Maspons

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Oriol Maspons Casades (born 1928 in Barcelona ; † August 12, 2013 there ) was a Catalan photographer .

biography

Born into a wealthy family, he initially photographed post-war Spain. That changed with a stay in France. Between 1955 and 1957 he lived in Paris and worked for the magazines Paris Match , Elle and Boccacio. There he met Henri Cartier-Bresson , Brassaï and Robert Doisneau , which visibly influenced his later work.

Back in Barcelona he opened a studio with Julio Ubiña. He mainly worked as a fashion and advertising photographer . He also specialized in portraits and photographed important personalities of his time, such as Salvador Dalí , Marcel Duchamp , Antoni Tapies , Gary Cooper and Audrey Hepburn . In the 1960s and 1970s he became a member of the avant-garde group Gauche Divine , where he made the acquaintance of Miguel Delibes and Camilo José Cela .

Influenced by the new and modern perspective, he took photos of the hippie movement in Ibiza and started his pin-up series . He played with innocence and sexuality and showed a new spontaneous type of advertising in these photos.

Works with illustrations by Oriol Maspons

  • Poeta en Nueva York by Federico García Lorca (1966)
  • La caza de la perdiz roja by Miguel Delibes
  • Arquitectura gòtica catalana by Alexandre Cirici i Pellicer (1974)
  • Arte visigodo en España by Pere de Palol.
  • Els barcelonins, with Xavier Miserachs and Colita (1981)

Awards

In 2006 he received the Creu de Sant Jordi for his work . This prize is awarded annually by the Generalitat de Catalunya to people whose works represent the Catalan culture and language.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Oriol Maspons; transgressor, tendre, lliure. Retrieved November 18, 2014 (cat).
  2. ↑ Maspons Oriol. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on December 5, 2014 ; accessed on November 14, 2014 (eng). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fotocoleccionista.com
  3. ↑ Maspons Oriol. Retrieved November 14, 2014 (eng).
  4. ↑ Fallece el fotógrafo Oriol Maspons, máximo exponente de la Gauche Divine. Retrieved November 20, 2014 (sp).
personal data
SURNAME Maspons, Oriol
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Catalan photographer
DATE OF BIRTH 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Barcelona
DATE OF DEATH August 12, 2013
Place of death Barcelona