ARTICLES / RESEARCH

Valentí Fargnoli, delegat de l'Arxiu Mas. Carme Perrotta.

This article, written by Carmen Perrota, an art historian holding a PhD from the Universitat de Barcelona and a documentary technician at Institut Amatller d’Art Hispànic (Photography Department), is a study based on a comparative analysis of Valentí Fargnoli’s photographs kept atInstitut Amatller d’Art Hispànic, in the Adolf Mas collection, and the photographs of the Fons Valentí Fargnoli kept at INSPAI, Centre de la Imatge.

Matching photographs, when compared with each other, provide very interesting information, such as a more accurate dating or hypotheses about the creation of reports or the execution of the images by the photographer.

Valentí Fargnoli, delegat de l'Arxiu Mas

"The Emili Massanas that I knew", by Jordi Mestre.

Within the framework of #IAW2024, International Archives Week, we want to remember why our archive service is named after Emili Massanas i Burcet.

In 1993, the family of Emili Massanas deposited the works of the Girona collector with the Diputació de Girona, and the Emili Massanas i Burcet Image Archive was thus established (which is currently part of INSPAI). His figure has been key to the research, as he did important work researching and documenting photographers and photographs, especially from the Girona region. However, Emili was also a designer, amateur photographer and image collector, among many other things!

Would you like to know about him? Jordi Mestre Vergés writes about “The Emili Massanas that I knew”.

The Emili Massanas that I knew

«Dues 'negres' de l'Estartit. L'istiu etern de Pilar i Marta Elias Pagès», by Gemma Busquets.

The article ‘Two “black women” from L'Estartit. The eternal Summer of Pilar and Marta Elias Pagès’, by Gemma Busquets Ros, a journalist from Banyoles, investigates a small part of the Elias Pagès photographic collection.

The Elias Pagès Collection is a private family photographic collection, donated to INSPAI by Dr.Pere Peya Fusellas. It is notable, on the one hand, because it brings together various photographic procedures and, on the other, because it contains photographs from various countries where the family members lived..

The text presents an evocative chronicle focused on the lives of the sisters Pilar and Marta Elias Pagès during the summers of the 1930s in L'Estartit.

«Dues 'negres' de l'Estartit. L'istiu etern de Pilar i Marta Elias Pagès»