PHOTOGRAPHIC HERITAGE

The Image Centre currently has more than one million images taken by professional and amateur photographers, from both personal and family collections.

Thematic scope
Institutional photography / Press photography / Heritage photography
Family photography / Commercial and Advertising photography / Artistic photography / Nature photography

Geographic scope
Regions of Girona / Towns of Girona / Catalonia / Spain / Europe / Central America
Amèrica Central

Chronological scope
From 1855 to today

Collection	Chronology of images	Number of fixed / moving images
1. Provincial Administration Fonds
1. Diputacio de Girona fonds	1845-present (open fonds)	+/- 100,000 photographs (glass plate negatives, plastic negatives, paper positives, digital images)
2. Institutional Fonds
1. Greenways Consortium Fonds	1999 - 2001	331 photographs
2. Salesians Collection.	Dates of creation and addition: 1899-1955	25 digital images.
3. Collection of the Geography and History Seminar of the Jaume Vicens Vives Institute	1849-1930	1,408 photographs
3. Private fonds and collections
1. Company fonds
1. L'Indépendant Fonds	1966-1977	958 photographs
2. Video Play Fonds	1984 - 2008	228 audiovisual and 113 photos
2. Family fonds
1. Elias Pagès Fonds	1850-1970	1,000 photographs, 26 films
2. Ferrer Culubret - Morros Sardá Fonds	ca. 1900-1935	242
3. Iglesias-Xifra Fonds	Mid 19th century -1970	1.235 photographs
4. Lobo Serra Batlle Fonds	1850-1994	5,000 photographs
5. Lluís Hugas i Grau Fonds	1940-1960	4,424 photographs
3. Personal fonds and collections
1. Antoni Martí Fonds	1969 - 1984	28 audiovisual and 13 photos
2. Banús-March Collection	Initial date: 1990 End date: 2003	35,570 colour photographs (5 x 35mm polyester negatives, 2 paper prints, 35,115 polyester slides and 450 transparencies in the following formats: 35 mm, 6 × 4.5 cm, 6 × 6 cm, 6 × 7.5 cm, 6 × 8.5 cm i 12.5 × 10 cm), 1 CD and related documents.
3. Carreras Canals Fonds	1950-1970	40 stills (black and white 35mm polyester plastic negatives) and 86 gelatin POP photographs (gelatin and silver chemical developing) on paper, in black and white.
4. Dani Duch fonds	1978 - 2011	+/- 53.000 photographs
5. Emili Massanas i Burcet Fonds and Collection	1855 - 1990	+/- 20.000
6. Ernest Costa Savoia Fonds	1962-2014	15,246 digital images, with magnetic support, 4,724 × 4,724 pixels, uncompressed TIFF; color depth: 16 bits per channel; capture resolution: 400 dpi; memory volume: 125 MB.
7. Fons F. Ponsatí (MMECAE)	1970-1990	30 films and 2 posters
8. Comalat Fonds	1979 - 1987	90.000 photographs
9. Jordi Bertran Gallart Fonds	1956	8 photographs
10. Jordi Soler Fonds	1960-2006	16.356 photographs
11. Josep Fontbernat Verdaguer Fonds	Start and end dates: 1906-1975	50 photographs
12. Josep Iglésias i Trias Collection	1979 - 2016	+/- 124.000 fotografies
13. Fons Josep Maria Bohigas Pujol	1950 to 1990	1,140
14. Kim Castells Fonds	1979-2017	10,970 photographs and 15,246 digital images
15. Manel Lladó Aliu Fonds (in process)	1984-2021	150,000 photographs
16. Fons Manel Sarassa	1930-1960	17 Photographs
17. Martí Calvo fonds	1960-2000	37,000 photographs in different formats: 35 mm, 6 × 6, 6 × 7, and 9 × 12 cm negatives in black and white and color on cellulose acetate; and 30 x 40 cm photographic copies on paper.
18. Martí Roura fonds	1941 - 1980	321 photographs
19. Marçal Molas Collection	1990-2016	133,500 analogue photographs and 61,800 digital images
20. Miquel Bataller i Fàbregas Fonds	1960 - 1970	1,200
21. Pablo García Cortés, Pablito fonds	1957 - 1984	+/- 200.000 photographs
22. Pius Pujades Fonds	1960-1980	1,054 prints on paper (collection: 259, personal fonds: 791)
23. Rafael Vilarrubias Fonds	1925 - 1953	812 photograhs
24. Ramon Vila Sanllehí Fonds	1964-2010	40,000 photographs
25. Ruiz fonds	1955 - 2008	>150.000
26. Valentí Fargnoli Fonds	1902 - 1944	834 photographs
27. Joaquim Cabezas collection	1860 - 1950	287 photographs
28. Josep Maria Vila Collection	1910-1950	106 photographs on paper
29. Julio Esteban Ascension Collection	1950-1970	1 album with 109 photographs
30. Pagès Fuertes collection	1855-1960	126 photographs
31. Pascual Menacho Collection	1941-1950	122 photographs
32. Quim Giró Collection	Late 19th century - mid 20th century	82
33. Col·lecció Rabell Rigau	1920-1960	184 postcards
4. Factitious collections
1. Col·lecció d'àlbums
2. Positive print collection	1888-1956	4 albumen prints; 1 made using an unknown color procedure; 8 photographs, prints (paper), black and white, 6 x 8.5 format, gelatin silver (DOP) process.
3. Direct positive camera collection	1849-1890	4 daguerreotypes, 3 ambrotypes, 1 ferrotype, 1 salt paper.

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Location Legal notice Diputació de Girona 2018