One century of photography and preservation in Catalonia: The Service for Local Architectural Heritage (SPAL)
Información General
- Autores: Gaspar Jaén i Urbán, Montserrat Baldomà Soto, María Antonia Carrasco Martí
- Editores: Universidad de Alicante / Universitat d'Alacant, Departamento de Expresión Gráfica y Cartografía.
- Año de publicación: 2013
- País: España
- Idioma: español
- ISBN: 978-84-616-7489-3
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One Century of Photography and Preservations in Catalonia: the Service for Local Architetural Heritage (SPAL)
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Resumen
The Service for the Cataloguing and Preservation of Architectonic Monu-ments was created by the Provincial Government of Barcelona in 1914. It was the first entity of any public Spanish admin-istration dedicated to saving, preserving and restoring monuments. During the 20th Centu-ry, the SPAL achieved several important goals such as interventions in Román and Romanic buildings and in some works by the architect Antoni Gaudí, as well as the creation of an important theoretical body of studies about res-toration. Since its founding, the Photographic Service of the SPAL was professionalized and it has become one of the bases for real actions in preservation. Photography has also been included in the programs written by the archi-tects who directed it and has been carried out extensively and continuously The conceptual axioms of this kind of photography are related to documents, so we can speak of it as scientif-ic and technical, which is characteristic of doc-umentary photography. Photographic series of a key moment of the monument's life must be seen as part of a chain formed by the original valúes of the monument and as a concrete record of these valúes. Photography becomes a memory, a certifícate, a tool about the materi-ality and the meaning of the monument.
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