Essential Cualladó

La Pedrera hosts this complete anthology of the work of Gabriel Cualladó (Massanassa, Valencia, 1925 – Madrid, 2003), who has been acknowledged as one of the leading figures in the movement to renew Spanish photography in the second half of the 20th century. His work exudes a personality of its own and stands out from the oeuvres of his peers because it imbues the sad reality of the post-war years with humanism and comprises a universe steeped in lyricism. Cualladó was self-taught and always described himself as an amateur photographer, and indeed he never made a living from photography, which was his great passion and a practice he never abandoned.