Ramón Masats

Ramón Masats
Masats in 2013
Born
Ramón Masats Tartera

(1931-03-17)17 March 1931
Caldes de Montbui, Spain
Died4 March 2024(2024-03-04) (aged 92)
Madrid, Spain
NationalitySpain
Occupation(s)Photographer
Filmmaker

Ramón Masats Tatera (17 March 1931 – 4 March 2024) was a Spanish photographer and filmmaker.[1][2]

Biography

Born in Caldes de Montbui on 16 March 1931, Masats first became a photojournalist in 1953 and worked at La Rambla in Barcelona. The following year, he joined the Real Sociedad Fotográfica. In 1957, he joined the Agrupació Fotogràfica de Catalunya.[3] That year, he moved to Madrid and joined the Gaceta Ilustrada, the Grupo fotográfico AFAL, and Arriba. In 1964, he released his documentary on the Museo del Prado, which won him an award at the Taormina Film Fest.

Ramón Masats died in Madrid on 4 March 2024, at the age of 92.[4]

Awards

  • National Photography Award (2004)[5]

References

  1. ^ "Ramon Masats i Tartera". Enciclopedia.cat (in Catalan).
  2. ^ "Muere el fotógrafo Ramon Masats a los 92 años". La Vanguardia (in Spanish). 4 March 2024. Retrieved 5 March 2024.
  3. ^ Diccionario de fotógrafos españoles. Del siglo XIX al XXI (in Spanish). Madrid: La Fábrica y Acción cultural española. 2013. p. 366-367. ISBN 978-84-15691-09-9.
  4. ^ Bonet, Juan Monet (5 March 2024). "La fotografía pierde a Ramón Masats, un pedazo de la historia de España". ABC (in Spanish). Retrieved 5 March 2024.
  5. ^ "Ramón Masats" (PDF). Ministry of Culture (in Spanish).
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.