The Sala Canal de Isabel II opens today until 20 July Un tiempo para mirar (1970-2020), a tour of the career of photojournalist Marisa Flórez.
The exhibition, organized by the Community of Madrid, covers the five decades of work of photojournalist Marisa Flórez through more than 185 snapshots, some of them unpublished on the social and political events of recent history of Spain, from the inauguration of parliamentary life to the first demonstrations or the arrival of El Guernica.
Pioneer in a predominantly male profession, Un tiempo para mirar (1970-2020), she retraces the five decades of the job of photojournalist Marisa Flórez through 184 snapshots -some unpublished so far- Showing the visitor new approaches that allow to enjoy and understand a vibrant era of our past, from a surprising and courageous, but also rigorous, tenacious, discreet and human.
The exhibition is divided along the four floors of the Sala Canal de Isabel II in the Community of Madrid, following a thematic approach, which presents itself as a journey that commemorates the way in which Marisa Flórez’s photography is understood: as a dialogue. In each of the plants, we find immortal images in which the portrayed characters, many of them iconic figures of social and political change in Spain since 1977, show their most intimate side.
Marisa Flórez is the demonstration of the power that photographs can have in our lives, in our history. His professional career, recognized with several awards, such as the National Prize for Graphic Journalism (1981), the Photography Prize Piedad Isla (2015) or the Culture Prize of the Community of Madrid (2024), which started in 1971 at the newspaper Informaciones and continued at El País between 1976 and 2012 as a photojournalist, editor-in-chief and graphic editor, speaks of a perfect balance between elegance, simplicity, artistic creation and documentary sense of photography.