Presentation of the catalog for the exhibition "A Promised Land: From the Age of Enlightenment to the Birth of Photography"

  Wednesday / May 15 / 7:00 p.m.
 Free admission upon collection of invitation until full capacity is reached.
MUN Theater

Program:

7:00 p.m.: Lecture with Manolo Laguillo. The corset, Kant, and photography.

8:00 p.m.: Round table discussion with Valentín Vallhonrat and Joan Fontcuberta. The construction of image through photography

The MUN presents this catalog featuring essays by Rafael Levenfeld and Valentín Vallhonrat, curators of the exhibition A Promised Land. From the Age of Enlightenment to the Birth of Photography, as well as essays by Joan Fontcuberta, Manolo Laguillo, Rafael Llano, and Ignacio Miguéliz, which, in line with the exhibition's discourse, examine the existence and emergence of the photographic phenomenon and its impact on the development and evolution of the image in society until the mid-19th century.

The catalog also includes a selection of the nearly 900 images displayed in the three sections into which the exhibition is divided: Albums of Drawings and Engravings from the Mid-18th Century to the Mid-19th Century; The Description of Egypt (1809-1823); and The Birth of Photography in the East.