"Shoot from the stomach." This is a top of the Austrian photographer Lisette Model, whose work runs through Jan. 10 at the MAPFRE Foundation of Madrid. This woman came to photography by accident and became one of the most famous and students taking a generation of photographers including Bruce Weber, Diane Arbus and Larry Fink. The exhibition, in collaboration with the museum Jeu de Paume in Paris, runs its production between 1933 and 1956, which brings together some of his most famous series, such as 'Promenade des anglais' (which depicts a bourgeois decadent and lazy Nice in the year 30) or 'Running legs' (record of agitation in New York in the years 40). according to exhibition curator Cristina Zelich "This is not a retrospective."
'Lisette Model' includes photographs taken in Paris, on the West Coast of the United States or its recognized reflections in shop windows in New York. And it was the Big Apple one of the great inspirational work of Model.
The general director of the Fundación Mapfre, Pablo Jiménez Burillo, stressed that the work of transmitting Model "truth" with characters "ripped from reality." For its part, the Jeu de Paume director Marta Gili, stated that the camera model used as "an instrument of independence and autonomy, not only professional, but as a woman in that society."
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