Monday, February 17, 2025 at 6:30 p.m.

Online session at this link: https://meet.jit.si/FOTOTERTULIES2024FCX

Rafael Garófano (1947-2023) was a renowned researcher, historian and popularizer, concerned with the conservation and dissemination of visual heritage, who dedicated most of his research to Cádiz. A graduate in Philosophy and a doctorate in History, Garófano explored the graphic history of the city through various media, from pre-imagery to photography, including stereoscopy and postcards. Therefore, throughout his life, Garófano compiled and studied an enormous collection of images that document the historical, social and cultural evolution of the city of Cádiz and its surroundings. Images that he disseminated in his publications, sharing his findings with the public.

The Rafael Garófano Collection includes diverse visual materials that span the 19th and 20th centuries, with photographs from all periods and various techniques, such as daguerreotypes, ferrotypes, albumens, salted paper, glass negatives, magic lantern plates and stereoscopies, in addition to postcards, engravings and printing plates. Also artifacts such as magic lanterns, stereographic viewers, zoetropes and praxinoscopes.

Concerned about the future of his collection, Garófano decided to donate it while he was still alive to the Provincial Historical Archive of Cádiz (AHPC), where the Restorer and Cultural Manager Ana Martín de Oliva Garófano (Rafael’s niece) is in charge of its cataloguing and conservation.

We look forward to seeing you there!