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21 February to 10 March 2025
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On the occasion of the celebration of the San Pedro Cátedra festivities in the San Pedro de la Fuente neighbourhood, the Active Ageing Programme of the City Council is unveiling these little gems that tell us about the people who live in this neighbourhood, a neighbourhood with agricultural and livestock roots that has undergone a major urban and social transformation in recent years.

Portrait photography consists of capturing, through photography, the appearance of a person or a small group of people, in which the face and expression are predominant. The objective is to show the likeness, personality and even the feelings of the subject.

Your Past is My Present seeks to assess private photographic collections from 1890 to 1950, showing the important role of photography as a historical document that facilitates the understanding of a given era, as well as recreating it through people, their fashions or their customs.

This exhibition is made up of romantic portraits (many of them hand-coloured), wedding portraits (which allow us to discover many details about the marriage celebration, the dresses, etc.) , childhood portraits (which began to become widespread from 1945 onwards and have the social function of informing and introducing a new child to the family), individual and group school portraits (in the former, the map of Spain and the crucifix stand out and in the latter, the youngest appear in the front row, the rest on benches and some in their best dresses, due to the solemnity of the experience), communion portraits (a solemn situation which forced one to pose rigidly, adhering to a pre-established model of representation), family portraits (which seek in the image a sort of "collective memory") and group portraits (considered a true ceremony since they involved the special dress, attendance at the photographic studio, adopting a respectable pose in a prepared setting, remaining motionless for a relatively long time, the flash, retouching, and perhaps the need to repeat the entire process if the plate printing was not correct).

In addition to all these portraits, there are photographs related to trades (in the San Pedro neighborhood there were farmers, cowboys, dairymen, fishermen, tanners, taxidermists...) and a selection of the utensils of the time.

The exhibition will open on Friday, February 21 at 7 p.m. on the 3rd floor of the library.

Event website : https://tinyurl.com/29qzznff

Address and map location

  • Postal address Biblioteca Pública Municipal "Miguel de Cervantes" de Burgos - C/ Serramagna, 10. Burgos. NaN. Burgos