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Praia de Areia Branca, 1992
TECHNICAL DATA
Author: Ángel Sanz (Oropesa, Toledo, 1948)
Title: Praia de Areia Branca, 1992
Year: 1992
Technique: chlorobromide gelatin on baryta paper; vintage copy.
Size: 55 x 33 cm
This work by the Manchegan photographer Ángel Sanz belonged to the exhibition organised as part of PhotoEspaña 2014 entitled “El viaje. Sendero vital” (“The Journey. Vital Path”), where a group of authors come together who had met over thirty years before at the Royal Photographic Society of Madrid. The María Cristina Masaveu Peterson Foundation acquired a set of photographs for this project. Each one presents their unique perspective of this group adventure with different natural, cultural and social scenes captured on the road between 1982 and 2012, making up a broad spectrum of contrasts in black and white.
In the absence of the human figure, Ángel Sanz is inspired here by a lonely post on the white sands of this Portuguese beach with infinite shades, the best-known and liveliest beach in the town of Lourinhã with its expansive beaches and young people surfing, which, curiously, the photograph turns into an ode to solitude. The raised trunk as an icon of isolation, the succession of planes and shades of grey, the blackness of the shadows and the sea on the horizon create a perfectly defined composition.