Agustí Centelles
Agustí Centelles Ossó (1909 in Valencia – 1 December 1985 in Barcelona) was a Catalan photographer, working on the Republican side of the Spanish Civil War. As a refugee from Francoist Spain he was interned in France where he recorded life in the camp at Bram. He is considered one of the founders of Spanish photojournalism and has been called the "Spanish Robert Capa", with a "direct, spare style" and "great skill with the miniature Leica which enabled him to follow and photograph scenes of the Civil War." Biography His family moved to Barcelona when Centelles was a year old. He went to work as an apprentice in 1924 in the photographic studio of where he learned portraiture. A few years later he became the assistant of Josep Badosa who introduced him to journalism. He was an early adopter of the compact Leica camera and in 1934 began to work independently for newspapers such as ', ''Diario de Barcelona'', ' and ''La Vanguardia''. At the beginning of the Spanish Civil Wa ...
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