Agusti Centelles: Spanish Civil War Photographer

""The Spanish Civil War has already produced a bibliography of
some 16.000 titles''. But, as the author states, ""War
photography has been inadequately researched''. The author tells
the story of Agusti Centelles, born 1909 in El Greco de Valencia
(Spain), and at 16 already one of the nine or ten
photojournalists in Barcelona at that time. In 1938 he was
entrusted with the direction of the photographic archives of the
""Ejército de Cataluña'' (Army of Cataluna), in Barcelona.
Ordered to leave Spain for France in 1939, he packed more then
4000 35-mm negatives documenting the Spanish Civil War. In 1944,
as a member of the Spanish underground in France, he was obliged
to entrust this wooden box full of negatives to a Carcassonne
(France) peasant couple. In 1976, a year after Franco's death,
Centelles travelled to the south of France to recover his
negatives. They were returned to him in the same wooden box, by
the children of the Carcassonne peasant couple. The prints of
his negatives were exhibited widely. (Illustrated)