Madrid ’60s. The look of Alcoba is the title of the photographic exhibition that the Museo de Historia of Madrid (78 Fuencarral Street) shows until next October 27.
This exhibition presents a part of the extensive production of the photographer Antonio Alcoba, focused on the 60s of the past SXX.
60 years ago, Madrid was in full transformation. A new horizon was clearing for the capital of this country that was beginning to open up to the outside. The economy was growing more slowly, people’s living conditions were improving and there was a collective sense of optimism. It’s the opening times and with it came new fashions, new products, other consumption habits… This atmosphere in the city is what the photographs reflect, more than 200 for the exhibition, Antonio Alcoba. The photojournalist, with his precise objective, captured with a certain mocking tone, in others denounce and always documentary, the essence of Madrid of those years.
The images of Antonio Alcoba show, as a non-stereotyped brushstrokes, what was the Madrid of the 60s, or rather part of what was; in his eyes are not present other realities, which were also, contestatarias and dissidents, but his absence is a talkative expression of his quiet condition. More information at this link.
