Leopoldo Pomés

Posted by Fabio 25 October 2012

Born in Barcelona in 1931, Leopoldo Pomés, a self-taught photographer, had a highly successful and celebrated late career in advertising in his native Spain. As well as street photography, Pomés also made portraits of many of the important artists and writers living in Barcelona, in particular the Dau-al-Set.

Founded in 1948, this avant-garde group of artists, including Tàpies, Joan Ponç, Modest Cuixart and the poet Carl Brossa had connections to the Surrealist and Dadaist movements. Its members were ten or fifteen years older than the Pomés but they received the young photographer as a friend and had great influence over his work. He also photographed the sculptors Moses Villèlia and Eduardo Chillida, the painter Antonio Saura. The world renounded writer Gabriel Garcia Márquez was also captured by Pomés in 1967, the year that One Hundred Years of Solitude was published.