Photobook Phenomenon
Inaugural Activities: Exhibition "Photobook Phenomenon"
Open Doors Day, debates and artists and curators presentations
To celebrate the opening of the exhibition "Photobook Phenomenon", the two venues that host the show, the CCCB and the Fundación Foto Colectania, organize an open doors day and a series of debates and meetings with some of the artists and curators of the project. A unique opportunity to meet some of the outstanding protagonists of the phenomenon of the photobook.
Programme
Saturday 18 March
At Foto Colectania
11 am. Horacio Fernández: The library is the museum
12.30 pm. Martin Parr and Gerry Badger talk about the photobook phenomenon
+ information and tickets sale: www.fotocolectania.org
At the CCCB
5 pm. Martin Parr: "The Best Photobooks"
6 pm. Markus Schaden and Frederic Lezmi: "Reading New York by William Klein"
6.30 pm. Erik Kessels: "Fascinations and Failures"
7 pm. Interventions by the artists Laia Abril , Julian Baron , Alejandro Cartagena, Jana Romanova and Katja Stuke & Oliver Sieber
Sunday 19 March
Open house at the two venues.
Participants: Martin Parr, Markus Schaden, Frederic Lezmi, Erik Kessels
This activity is part of Photobook Phenomenon
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