From November 11, 2023 to January 14, 2024
Starting on Saturday, November 11, you can visit the exhibition in Room L of the Huete Photography Museum. The Craft of Looking by photographer Cesar Lucas. An exhibition by the Andalusian Agency of Cultural Institutions, in collaboration with the Andalusian Center of Photography, curated by Vicente Tofiño.
The job of looking, It is an exhibition that offers the possibility of approaching a splendid retrospective of this photojournalist who has developed a solid and versatile work. In this exhibition, more than 120 photographs have been brought together, which summarize the career and professional trajectory of César Lucas. For a better understanding, they have been organized into six sections: Origins, Cinema, Myths of a country, New times, Faces and Routes.
Caesar Lucas. History of Spanish Photojournalism
When he was ten or twelve years old and was going to the Cardenal Cisneros Institute in the Plaza de España in Madrid, César Lucas had several focuses of attention on Gran Vía: the Alfonso shop windows – which portrayed poets such as Antonio Machado or Federico García Lorca -, by Vicente Ibáñez – who showed images of film and famous artists -, and by Juan Gyenes, – who exposed the faces of his aristocratic and powerful clientele -.
Without wanting to, he was already choosing his destiny, his job, to which he has dedicated his entire life, with an eclectic work, marked by photojournalism, fashion, travel, reporting or his current passion: scenes of daily life, Traditional Spain of the 21st century.
César (this is how he signed his first photograph when he was 16 years old and it was published by ‘ABC’) began to show a good example of his professionalism in his beginnings in the newspaper ‘Pueblo’ or in the ‘Agencia Europa Press’, for whom he took, with 18 years old, the coverage of Che Guevara’s visit in 1959. In that report, obsessed with achieving the perfect portrait, he achieved it when that revolutionary in an olive green military suit revealed the Arc de Triomphe, symbol of the Franco dictatorship, in the background. Only a small photo was published in ‘Pueblo’ before being recognized internationally years later.
In 1965 he created his own agency, ‘Cosmo Press’, combining his work in the press with carrying out assignments as a featured photographer for American film companies in the blockbusters of the big films shot in Spain. Stars such as Katharine Hepburn, Brigitte Bardot, Sean Connery, Raquel Welch, Yul Brinner, Romy Schneider, John Lennon, Billy Wilder, Clint Eastwood, Stephen Boyd and Buster Keaton pass through his camera.
In this diversified career around the image, César Lucas contributes to the consolidation in Spain of the figure of the graphic editor, joining the founding team of the magazine ‘Gentleman’ in 1973, to move to the founding team of ‘El País’ as first head of newspaper photography. In these times of transition, photojournalism and images are consolidated as informative elements with their own language.
There are two photographs that summarize the moments of change: the photo of the child on his father’s shoulders raising his little fist in one of the first large demonstrations in Madrid and Marisol’s nude in ‘Interviú’, a symbol of the newly arrived freedom of expression.
After the Franco regime, the transition, movie stars and nudes, César Lucas focuses on travel, fashion and portrait photography in other publications such as ‘Panorama’, ‘Novedades’ or ‘Viajar’.
César Lucas has been part of the board of trustees of the Spanish Photography Foundation, he was the first Spaniard invited to be part of the international jury of the World Press Photo contest, founder of the Photo Press photography contest of the La Caixa Foundation, and one of the editors of the «Manifesto on graphic editing in the press», Pazo de Mariñan, A Coruña. He has published the autobiographical book Cesar Lucas from the Photobolsillo collection and the fifty-year anthology ‘El oficio de mira’, from Ediciones Lumwerg.
His retirement, in 2009, has not meant the end of a career and a personality that continues to give the vision of a country and its daily life through the people, with their inalienable right to freedom of expression and a job well done that it always prevailed.
Vicente Tofiño (Exhibition Curator)
The sample, The job of Looking by Caesar Lucas, It has been carried out thanks to the collaboration with the Andalusian Center of Photography of the Junta de Andalucía, and the curator of the exhibition, the photographer Vicente Tofiño.
It opens next Saturday, November 11 and can be enjoyed in ROOM L of the Huete Photography Museum of the Antonio Pérez Foundation until January 14, 2024.
SCHEDULES AND RATES
April 1 – October 31
Friday to Saturday from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. and from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
Domingo de 11:00 a 14:00 hrs.
November 1 – March 31
Friday to Saturday from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. and from 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Domingo de 11:00 a 14:00 hrs.
Another days Appointment at the Huete Tourism Office – Wednesdays and Thursdays or at tel 969371326 / 639042776
Rates
Free entrance
Huete Photography Museum. Pl. Cristo, 5, Huete.
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