máscaras

Alberto Schommer (9 August 1928 – 10 September 2015) wanted to be a painter, but found in the photograph the medium with which to express his artistic concerns. An exhibition now runs in Donostia-San Sebastián a trajectory of more than half a century in which it explored all kinds of aesthetic territories.

Arteagunea, the exhibition hall that the Kutxa has in the contemporary culture center Tabakalera, houses this exhibition, "Alberto Schommer. Towards modernity", which will remain open until March 19.

These are his portraits of Rafael Alberti, Gabriel Celaya and José Luis López Aranguren, who are part of his famous series “máscaras” (masks), which led him to be the first photographer to exhibit in the Prado Museum in 2014.

I love the way you've composed this--the image works beautifully both to document the exhibit and as a work of art in its own right--your inclusion of the symmetrical reflections and your inclusion and placement of the person photographing the works is brilliant. The only element I find a bit distracting is the little bit of color in the cap, hand, and cell phone screen--I wonder if going to a straight black and white conversion might be useful. In any case, I like this image a lot.