Catalonia in photos.
Half a century of monuments and landscapes, photographed with a professional's patience. A living archive of 6,200 images and 525 places, available to anyone who wants them.
Nº 00675
Little and Great Encantat
Every photograph in this archive is the fruit of craft and many miles travelled. Pyrenean landscapes, Romanesque churches, Barcelona streets and villages that are no longer what they were: a personal inventory of Catalonia made over more than fifty years.
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- first inventory of Catalonia's listed monuments
Fine art
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Inventory
Catalonia, county by county
The archive is organised like the country itself: by comarca. The deeper the red, the more places photographed.
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An eye shaped by the craft
Journey to the Light
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17
A decision
Trained as an artist at the Escola Massana, at seventeen he decides that photography will be his means of expression.
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Lab
Camera and darkroom
He pairs the shot with the darkroom: filters to interpret what he perceives, paper worked until it gives its best. He studies old processes: bromoils and gum bichromates.
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Ciba
Cibachrome reaches Spain
First as an experiment, he introduces Cibachrome (later Ilfochrome) to Spain. Its success leads him to open a professional lab and studio open to the public.
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1973
Israel–Palestine, between wars
The first report on Israel and Palestine, in 1973, between the two wars: some 500 photographs.
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1982
The monuments inventory
He makes the first photographic inventory of the monuments officially listed by the Generalitat de Catalunya. Alongside: posters, calendars, postcards, newspapers.
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Mestre
The pursuit of the perfect print
The drive for flawless reproduction leads him to teach at the Institut d'Estudis Fotogràfics de Catalunya and the Nikon School, and to specialise in faithful reproduction of valuable old documents.
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Digital
A new birth
Digital photography rekindles his creative spirit, and he completes many works conceived years earlier with that artistic intent.
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Lineage
Three generations devoted to image and word
Before the photographs came the books. A printer grandfather, a publisher father and a photographer son: the same care for the craft, from the type case to Cibachrome paper.
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I
Jaume Aymà Ayala
Printer and publisherA pupil of Eudald Canibell at the Institut Català de les Arts del Llibre. In 1939 he starts publishing with his son. He dies in 1964, aged 82.
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Jaume Aymà i Mayol
Catalan teacher and publisher · Creu de Sant JordiA student of Pompeu Fabra, pioneer of Catalan-language publishing after the war, driving force behind the Joanot Martorell Prize and the Nit de Santa Llúcia.
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Albert Aymà Aubeyzon
PhotographerHe joins the family publishing house Delos-Aymà and makes photography his craft: darkroom, teaching and the visual inventory of Catalonia.
- Read Jaume Aymà i Mayol's biography →
One photo, one email, one Bizum.
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Choose
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Request
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Pay
Pay by Bizum to +34 625 045 263, in the name of Albert Aymà. An invoice is available on request.
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Receive
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