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Somorrostro beach huts

Date
1800 - 1990
Archive
National Archive of Catalonia
Document type
Imatge fixa
Reference code
ANC1-995-N-638
Link to the online document
Description

In 1964, Ignasi Marroyo and Joan Colom were commissioned by El Correo Catalán to do a report on the Somorrostro shacks and how they were threatened by the progress of the concrete on the Passeig Marítim that was being built. This report has been passed down to posterity due to the unfiltered realism with which Marroyo portrayed the families who lived there, in line with the New Avant-garde.