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Life in the concentration camp: barber

Date
1936 - 1939
Archive
National Archive of Catalonia
Document type
Imatge fixa
Reference code
C2-14
Link to the archive
Description

Auguste Chauvin was one of the great photographers who portrayed the Retreat, constituting the first mass population displacement of the 20th century. He documented on the one hand, scenes of the exodus, disorder, hunger, soldiers, abandoned cannons and trucks and on the other hand, the daily life of the concentration camps of Argelès-sur-Mer and Barcarès. This series of glass plates shows us the improvised shelters built to protect themselves from the intense cold with an everyday image, like a hairdressing session.