In 1955, Frederic Marès dedicated this room to photography in a context in which museums did not yet show much interest in this reproduction technique. In this sense, he became one of the forerunners of the conservation and dissemination of the world of images. For Marès, preserving these objects was also a way of evoking the past.

The room brings together a set of portraits using the first photographic techniques: daguerreotypes, ambrotypes and ferrotypes, a group of images by Catalan artists and views of Barcelona that recall spaces that have now disappeared or have been profoundly transformed, and a set of cameras and photographic accessories from various chronologies and formats, among which the two large workshop cameras in the center of the room stand out.

Also, large oval portraits, retouched with the technique of crayon portrait , and a showcase of albums that remind us of the presence of photography in the bourgeois house of the 19th century. The collection of hundreds of portraits in visiting card format and in the albumen technique that filled family albums stands out, witnesses to the fashion of the second half of the 19th century.

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Collection of daguerreotypes