Photo España 2023 features over 80 exhibitions throughout Madrid, offering a rich tapestry of photography across varied venues. Notable highlights include Joel Meyerowitz's 'Europa 1966-1967,' which reflects a formative year in the photographer's career through impactful images captured across ten European countries. The festival emphasizes artists who confront reality to envision alternatives, showcasing a mix of historical and contemporary works, such as Dora Maar's surrealism and LGBTQ+ themes in Sandra Blow's photos, ultimately creating a vibrant celebration of photographic art.
In 1966, Bronx-born photographer Joel Meyerowitz packed two Leicas and boarded an ocean liner bound for Europe. One year, 30,000 km, and 25,000 photographs later, he had planted the seeds of his pioneering, seven-decade career.
Photo España's Europa 1966-1967 is an expansive immersion in that roving, restless year, which acted as the photographer's coming-of-age.
Meyerowitz traced a meandering path across ten countries, his magpie eye picking out flashes of the absurd and the tragic, the humorous and the startling.
In Spain, Meyerowitz found a jubilant temperament that matched his own, particularly among an irrepressible family of musicians in Malaga.
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