Concerning the Presence of Emigration in Galician Historical Photography

Abstract

In recent decades, projects for the recovery of historical photography have proliferated; revaluing a cultural heritage that goes beyond the artistic, allowing us to interrogate our recent memory, daily experiences and the social uses of photographs. This paper will address all of this based on the work of the Galician Center for Photographic Studies in Vigo in the recovery of popular photography, in relation to a fundamental experience in the Galician context of the last century: the emigration.