When the Catalan photographer Xavier Miserachs (Barcelona, 1937) passed away, in 1998, he left behind almost fifty years of professional practice, and an archive of over 80.000 photographic negatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In 2010, it was my role to start a conversation with Miserachs\u2019s heirs, previously approached through MACBA advisors, so as to draft a plan with a view to drafting a plan by which the photographer\u2019s archive of negatives could be lent to the Museum\u2019s Study Center on a long term basis. It was required that this plan would successfully combine the archive owners\u2019 private interests and the museum\u2019s public services, such as accessibility to the archive materials, availability for research, effective dissemination of the archive\u2019s contents, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The agreement resulting from these conversations was signed by MACBA and the Miserachs family at the beginning of 2011, and the photographer\u2019s family transferred to the Study Center the entire archive, including not just the negatives but also the photographer\u2019s notebooks, contracts, invoices and correspondence, as well as Miserachs\u2019 collection of photobooks and books about photography.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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