Slightly Out of Focus

Photojournalist Endre Ernö Friedmann (1913–1954), better known as Robert Capa, an alias he adopted with his professional and romantic partner, Gerda Taro, depicted the horrors of different twentieth-century conflicts, including the Spanish Civil War and World War Two. His images left a documentary legacy that is now embedded in

European memory and which today has mobilised societies to protect their footprints: for instance, in the German city of Leipzig local residents managed to protect the building Capa captured in his last image of the war in 1945, while in the Entrevías neighbourhood of Madrid’s Puente de Vallecas district the modest building on number 10, Calle Peironcely — the backdrop to Capa’s famous shot of children playing in front of a bullet-riddled wall from the early months of Spain’s war — was saved by citizens’ efforts to ensure the bombings on the Spanish capital in November 1936 were not forgotten.

In a tribute to this remarkable legacy, the Anastasio de Gracia Foundation — behind the #SalvaPeironcely10 (#SavePeironcely10) Platform — and the Museo Reina Sofía pay homage to the Hungarian-American photojournalist on the seventieth anniversary of his death via the concert Slightly Out of Focus, a work inspired by a same-titled autobiographical book (Henry Holt and Company, 1947) and performed by Italian musician Fabio Turchetti and Hungarian pianist Grego Foldvari. In accompaniment with the sound composition is a video-graphic piece by Raquel Sardá and Vicente Alemany, which will explore the meanings underlying the photographer’s images, connecting analogue photographic developing techniques and visual creation with digital processes.

Organised

Collaboration

Credits

Music:

Fabio Turchetti and Grego Foldvari

Visual creation:

Raquel Sardá and Vicente Alemany

Editor:

Miguel Sánchez-Moñita

Voice:

Myriam Soto Lucas