Papers Fotogràfics
Papers Fotogràfics is a magazine edited by Fotoconnexió whose objective is to disseminate monographic works on the history of photography throughout the world.
The acceptance of the works is preceded by a peer review. The candidate texts must be original, unpublished or have been published in out-of-print volumes which are not currently accessible. Previous works that have been updated with sufficient depth can also be considered for publication.
Papers Fotogràfics publishes under the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA license, and the permissions for the use of the images contained in the monographs are the responsibility of their authors.
Proposals should be sent to secretaria@fotoconnexio.org addressed to the editorial board of Papers Fotogràfics.
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Papers Fotogràfics, nº 1
Photographs, books and travel.
Aurora Bertrana between Polynesia and Morocco (1926-1936)
María de los Santos García Felguera
A traveler, writer, cellist, politician, freelancer, Freemason and feminist, Aurora Bertrana illustrated her travel books, articles and novels with photographs. In Polynesian texts she used some made by her husband (Denis Choffat) or bought from professional companies; on the trip to Morocco she brought her own camera, a Kodak that identified her as a journalist (along with the notebook) and that she could not use as much as she would have liked due to multiple difficulties, including approaching to women. In this article we analyze the role of the photographs referred to in the context of the thought, writings and life of the Catalan writer, who from her first articles took them into account as an important part; and the role of the camera itself that functions as a shield in complicated situations. Aurora Bertrana raises issues that remain crucial in today’s photography, such as respect for the other person and even the renunciation of using the camera so as not to break that respect.
Keywords: Aurora Bertrana, women, gender, photography, travel, books, Polynesia, Morocco, Catalonia, 20th century, 1920s, Zane Gray, limits of photography.
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Papers Fotogràfics, nº 2
Enric Bargués, inventor of the minute camera with copy device.
Salvador Tió Sauleda
In 1917, Enric Bargués (1883-) filed a patent application for the production of positive copies with a camera equipped with a laboratory and using bromide-coated cardboard as a cliché. This invention replaced the single-copy ferrotype system of minute cameras with a negative-positive system using conventional silver bromide photographic paper. After the first automatic photography device, the Automatic Photographic Scale by Joan Cantó in Barcelona in 1887, and its subsequent failure, Nievsky took up the idea of a camera with a built-in laboratory and, using dry ferrotype plates, launched the first minute camera in 1891, followed by a succession of cameras with a built-in laboratory. Finally, in 1917, Enric Bargués, who had been involved in the construction of cameras since 1914 and had formed a partnership with Pere Farias i Velasco, would present the patent for a camera with a laboratory and prepared to make a negative on gelatin-bromide paper, and by re-photographing it, obtain the positive copy, also on gelatin-bromide paper. The innovation was later adopted by other manufacturers.
Keywords: Enric Bargués, minute camera, photographic automaton, ferrotype, gelatin-bromide, negative/positive.
Download link: Enric Bargués, inventor of the minute camera with copying device. (Catalan and Spanish)