Joan Colom was a photographer from the generation of the fifties, who renewed the photographic language to incorporate it into the prevailing avant-garde trends. His references were leading photographers from Paris and New York, such as Henri Cartier-Bresson, Brassaï, Man Ray, Walter Evans and Robert Frank. Black-and-white, covertly-shot images of the poorest working-class people in their neighbourhoods in Barcelona; photographic reports of great sociological, historical and documentary veracity for which he deservedly won the Premio Nacional de Fotografía from the Spanish Ministry of Culture in 2002.
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