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Rafael Navarro Garralaga (born 8 October 1940 in Zaragoza [1] ) is a Spanish art photographer.
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Rafael Navarro Garralaga (born 8 October 1940 in Zaragoza [1] ) is a Spanish art photographer.
Navarro's interest in photography began in the 1970s, starting his career on theatre and sports photography. But finally, he became very fond of visual arts where he started to develop a more personal language. We can point out of his career on the photograph series that he has actually broken up with the medium and that he has contributed to the creation of an alternative photographic discourse, as for example the diptychs, which a combination of two images appear without connection, offering a photographic different and unusual view. He was very active in the world of photography, founding in 1977 with Manuel Esclusa, Joan Fontcuberta y Pere Formiquera, the group Alabern. A year later he was appointed representative of the Lationamerican Council of Photography and in 1985 member of the Advising Counsel of the Miró’s Foundation. His works have been exhibited in art galleries and museums all over the world in more than 500 occasions and it is part of important collections like the Bibliothèque Nationale, la Maison européenne de la photographie of Paris, the contemporary museums of Brussels, Mexico, Buenos Aires or Japan, as well as the Pilar i Joan Miró’s collections, the Institut Valencià d'Art Modern or the Centro de Arte Reina Sofía. Among his more than 700 publications we must enhance books like Dípticos (1986), Le forme del corpo (1997), Catalogue Raisonné 1975-1998 (2000), Don’t disturb (2001), Photobolsillo 44 (2002), En el taller de Miró (2006) and the recent Cuerpos Iluminados (2006).
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