Vintage Barcelona – in pictures

The first ever retrospective of osep Brangulí has opened in Barcelona, featuring 300 photographs of the pioneer of Catalan photojournalism and chronicler of the city's period of change and conflict, between 1909 and 1945. Here's a sneak preview of his superb black and white photographs
  
  


Vintage Barcelona: Barceloneta
Schoolchildren on the beach in the Barceloneta neighbourhood, 1919 Photograph: Josep Brangulí/ANC
vintage Barcelona: Swimming
Swimming competition organised in the port area by the National Swimming Club of Barcelona and the Brussels Swimming and Water Polo Club, 1913 Photograph: Josep Brangulí/ANC
Vintage Barcelona: workers
The first 600 Barcelona workers leaving the city's Estación de Francia for Germany in 1941, where they worked for companies of the Reich Photograph: Josep Brangulí/ANC
vintage Barcelona: Barber
Street barber in the Somorrostro neighbourhood, circa 1915 Photograph: Josep Brangulí/ANC
vintage Barcelona: Dressmakers' week, 1933
Dressmakers' week, 1933 Photograph: Josep Brangulí/ANC
vintage Barcelona: Catalonia National Day
Celebrating Catalonia National Day, 11 September, in front of the monument of Rafael Casanova in 1931. The statue remains a symbol of Catalan nationalism to this day Photograph: Josep Brangulí/ANC
Vintage Barcelona: workshop
Photo-engraving workshop, circa 1916 Photograph: Josep Brangulí/ANC
Vintage Barcelona: Carrer de la Palma de Sant Just
Carrer de la Palma de Sant Just, circa 1910 Photograph: Josep Brangulí/ANC
vintage Barcelona: Mirotres
Construction of the Mirotres, the first reinforced cement ship built in Spain, at the Malgrat de Mar shipyard, circa 1917 Photograph: Josep Brangulí/ANC
vintage Barcelona: Tinned food
Tinned food stand at the Barcelona Trade Fair, circa 1925 Photograph: Josep Brangulí/ANC
vintage Barcelona: Vía Laietana
Vía Laietana, circa 1922
The Josep Brangulí retrospective is at CCCB, Barcelona's centre for contemporary culture, until 23 October
Photograph: Josep Brangulí/ANC
 

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