Josep Maria Vila Collection
Josep Maria Vila i Medinyà (Celrà, 1952) holds a degree in Catalan philology and is a researcher.
The collection was assembled by Josep Maria Vila, the result of his skills as a cultural scholar and historian. It is made up of two parts that were acquired at two different times. The first, acquired in 2011, consists of two portraits of women, dating between 1910 and 1916. The two 31 x 25 cm prints with secondary cardboard, in which the matte collodion process was used, were taken by the photographer Joan Llinàs Badosa, who had a gallery named Arte Modero from 1910 to 1916 on Avinguda Jaume in Girona.
The photographs from the second part, which were entered into the register in 2016, are set in Palafrugell, Girona, Barcelona, El Pertús, Perpignan, Ceret, etc. The subject matter includes studio portraits and landscape shots. There are some portraits that are interesting because of the poses of those portrayed, such as, for example, one of a priest, portraits of different women, etc. The photographers include Rafael Areñas (important late-19th-century photographer from Barcelona) and Jaume Ferrer (Palafrugell), among others.
The collection was assembled by Josep Maria Vila, the result of his skills as a cultural scholar and historian. It is made up of two parts that were acquired at two different times. The first, acquired in 2011, consists of two portraits of women, dating between 1910 and 1916. The two 31 x 25 cm prints with secondary cardboard, in which the matte collodion process was used, were taken by the photographer Joan Llinàs Badosa, who had a gallery named Arte Modero from 1910 to 1916 on Avinguda Jaume in Girona.
The photographs from the second part, which were entered into the register in 2016, are set in Palafrugell, Girona, Barcelona, El Pertús, Perpignan, Ceret, etc. The subject matter includes studio portraits and landscape shots. There are some portraits that are interesting because of the poses of those portrayed, such as, for example, one of a priest, portraits of different women, etc. The photographers include Rafael Areñas (important late-19th-century photographer from Barcelona) and Jaume Ferrer (Palafrugell), among others.