Museum of Ethnology. Corona, 36
The Valencian Museum of Ethnology presents a new volume of the series Valencia in Black and White, this time, unlike the previous two (2008 i 2013), focused on a specific neighborhood of the city: El Cabanyal. The most emblematic and abused, fishermen's neighborhood by the sea that became an emblem of resistance against urban voraciousness and institutional vexation, it has opened a door for future photo shows about other neighborhoods. In this they are exposed eighty photographs - of a journalistic spirit but with a very careful aesthetic - of three generations of photographers from the Vidal family covering practically the entire 20th century. Fishing with the ox technique, the activity of fishermen in and out of the sea, the transformation of the beach into a place of leisure for the new bourgeoisie and the popular classes, the sale of fish in the market by women, the consequences of the flood of 1957 (it particularly affected the Cabanyal because it did not have a water evacuation system), Mariner's Holy Week… are some of the prints collected in Valencia in black and white. That from a more intellectual prism, it also portrays cultural figures closely linked to the neighborhood, even though they were not born there, like Blasco Ibáñez, Sorolla or Benlliure. S.M.
