JOSE ORTIZ ECHAGÜE

ongarine · Nov 17, 2005

http://www.unav.es/fff/paginasinternas/pagina_3.html

A chance to see the work of JOSE ORTIZ ECHAGÜE.
Spanish photographer not so well know, but it will be worth an overview.
Your comments please.
Daniele

Jorge · Nov 17, 2005

ongarine said:
http://www.unav.es/fff/paginasinternas/pagina_3.html

A chance to see the work of JOSE ORTIZ ECHAGÜE.
Spanish photographer not so well know, but it will be worth an overview.
Your comments please.
Daniele

Well what do you know, SEAT is a very popular car here in Mexico. I loved his Castles and Landscapes, overall he did great work.

medform-norm · Nov 17, 2005

ongarine said:
http://www.unav.es/fff/paginasinternas/pagina_3.html

A chance to see the work of JOSE ORTIZ ECHAGÜE.
Spanish photographer not so well know, but it will be worth an overview.
Your comments please.
Daniele

Very nice, no better, breathtaking! And very Spanish indeed. Never heard of him before. My Spanish is so lückenhaft (full of holes), that I can't understand most of what is said. Is there any mention on the site of the techniques he used?
Thanks for sharing this.

Norm

Oh, there are books published about him as well, just found it on the net, 57 euro for 208 pp, 168 ill. 28x36 cm. In Spanish Not a bad price. ISBN 84-95183-00-5.

Gerald Koch · Nov 17, 2005

His technique in some of the portraits and studies reminds me of William Mortensen.

sanking · Nov 17, 2005

Ortiz-Echagüe published several books of silver phographs of Spain, but his most famous work was done with the Fresson process. Fresson was available commercially during the early part of his life. Later the Fresson family provided him with the information that allowed him to build his own coating machine and make the paper. Fresson of course is a direct carbon type of process. Fresson prints have a kind of paintely look, not unlike well-made bromoils or gum bichromates.

Sandy

medform-norm said:
Very nice, no better, breathtaking! And very Spanish indeed. Never heard of him before. My Spanish is so lückenhaft (full of holes), that I can't understand most of what is said. Is there any mention on the site of the techniques he used?
Thanks for sharing this.

Norm

Oh, there are books published about him as well, just found it on the net, 57 euro for 208 pp, 168 ill. 28x36 cm. In Spanish Not a bad price. ISBN 84-95183-00-5.

vet173 · Nov 18, 2005

I drooled over his work when I was looking at the fresson process. Breathtaking. Looking at his stuff, I didn't know whether to work harder or just give up. It's just that fine.

makanakijones · Jul 17, 2009

Echagüe is a myth here in Spain, He was named like one of the three best photographers of his time by an international magazine.
Photography has very bad memory.

markbarendt · Jul 17, 2009

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tim rudman · Jul 17, 2009

ongarine said:
http://www.unav.es/fff/paginasinternas/pagina_3.html

A chance to see the work of JOSE ORTIZ ECHAGÜE.
Spanish photographer not so well know, but it will be worth an overview.
Your comments please.
Daniele

he was an amazing man in many respects. If you can read about his life do so. makes many of us seem rather limited.
Tim

sanking · Jul 17, 2009

makanakijones said:
Echagüe is a myth here in Spain, He was named like one of the three best photographers of his time by an international magazine.
Photography has very bad memory.

I think it is worse than bad memory. The fact that Ortiz-Echague is not better known internationally results from a deliberate effort by photo historians like Helmut Gernsheim to down play and diminish the work of photographers who worked in the "pictorial" tradition. There are in fact many other pictorial photographers whose work was highly regarded in their time who got little or no mention in Gernsheim's histories, or in those of a number of other like-minded photo historians.

In Spain Ortiz-Echague's reputation as a photographer suffered in the past because of his affiliation with the regime of the dictator Francisco Franco.

Sandy King

ongarine · Jul 18, 2009

I have an old not so well printed book (a sort o miscellanea) of JOSE ORTIZ ECHAGÜE.
Would someone, Spanish mainly, let me know if there are some new editions on books of his work?.
Thanks

JOSE ORTIZ ECHAGÜE

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