Photographer Argentina Humberto Rivas died in Barcelona at age 72
Installed in Barcelona since 1976, received the National Prize of Photography in 1997
EFE - Barcelona - 07/11/2009
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The Argentine photographer Luis Humberto Rivas died Saturday in Barcelona at age 72. The City of Barcelona was scheduled to deliver on Monday the Gold Medal for Artistic Merit, a new recognition of the value of his work that will come posthumously.
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Called the photographer of silence, by the fact that in his photographs of portraits tried to capture the inner qualities of the portraits, Humberto Rivas arrived in Spain in 1976 and settled in Barcelona, \u200b\u200ba city that tomorrow will be a ceremony of remembrance.
His work has been recognized throughout his career with several awards, including the Prize of Plastic Arts of Barcelona City in 1996 and the National Photography Prize in 1997. His work is in collections such as the Televisa Cultural Foundation in Mexico, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Mar del Plata, Arginine, Los Angeles Country Museum of Art and the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, United States, the National Library Paris and the art collection of Fundación La Caixa, Barcelona.
The CEO of Culture of the Consistory of Barcelona, \u200b\u200bJordi MartÃ, has expressed his condolences on the death of Rivas, which has been defined as a teacher for their talent and their impact on the artistic imagination of several generations of photographers.
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