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GIPUZKOA 1936-1950: CHRONICLE IN BLACK (AND WHITE)
Exhibition
Udal Liburutegi Nagusia / Biblioteca Central
(Alderdi Eder)
Images of the Civil War and the post-war period in Gipuzkoa tend to portray the triumphalism of the victorious troops and reflect a part of society who lived in comfort during the early years of the Franco regime. But the lack of freedom and denial of rights, the poverty and devastation caused by the war was a reality they preferred to keep under wraps. While men were recruited, taken prisoner or shot in villages and cities, the elderly, women and children, when not murdered, had to learn to survive in particularly harsh circumstances.
This exhibition of photographs taken from 1936-1950 endeavours to unveil the other, darker and less known side, that of the thousands of involuntary protagonists of a time in history which was sadly to mark the future of Gipuzkoa.