Antoni Campañà was a photographer who worked for over sixty years in different fields within the discipline: artistic photography, photojournalism, sports photography, advertising, etc. His work is easily recognizable by its pictorial style, a technique he learned from Joaquim Pla i Janini and Ramon Batlles i Fontanet, both of whom, along with Campañà, were members of the Agrupació Fotogràfica de Catalunya. In 1933, the artist travelled to Munich and enrolled on a photography course taught by Willy Zielke. During the Civil War years, he was a member of the leading group of photographers alongside Agustí Centelles, Josep Brangulí and Carlos Pérez de Rozas. In the forties, he stored the positive and negatives sides of the Civil War in the Arxiu Mas photographic archives in Barcelona and opened his own business on Rambla de Catalunya. In the subsequent decades he set up a sports weekly paper called Dicen; created a hallmark for tourist postcards; entered the world of advertising photography working for the car manufacturer SEAT, presided over by José Ortiz Echagüe; gave up artistic photography and established himself as a reference in sports photography. In 2018, his family found two boxes with over five thousand photographs that Campañà had taken during the Civil War and the early years of the Franco dictatorship, which were displayed in the exhibition entitled La guerra infinita. Antoni Campañà (The infinite war. Antoni Campañà) at the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya (MNAC) in 2021.
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