José Antonio Sancho Biography

José Antonio Sancho - Self-taught photographer.

In his photographic work, the author's life experience has been of fundamental importance.

José Antonio Sancho was born in 1952 in Barcelona's Eixample, where he lived until he was seven years old, although he spent long periods in a town in Teruel. Later he moved to one of the first neighborhoods that were built on the city limits in the district of Sant Martí.

At 15, I worked in a metallurgical factory as an administrator where a monthly magazine was published and it was he who printed it, first with a Rank Xerox and then in an Offset, "Technical issues have always given me well."

At that same time he was introduced to a rock group as a sound technician. Thus he developed his love for music. He attended some of the most emblematic musical events of the time, such as the morning sessions of the Novedades, the Montmeló Festival or the Price concerts. It was precisely during this period that he began to take photographs sporadically.

The vital experience that was spoken at the beginning, has developed in dual spaces and environments, the eixample and the neighborhood, the city and the town, the office and the rock. In 1979 he abandoned his last accounting job to devote himself exclusively to photography, his photographs have been of the urban and marginal environment of the neighborhood and underground environments, and other cultural and social circles, derived from working as a press photographer.

These dualities are reflected in his book "Barcelona canalla and sublim 1979-99" published in December 2011.

It was 1980 when he made his first solo exhibition "Photographs". In it you could see that it was not a monothematic photographer. There were photographs of the most suburban and industrial Barcelona that contrasted with others on the subject was nature. These photographs were the product of long walks through the city and sporadic trips to the countryside. "I have rarely gone to look for a photo, although I have not been friends with going through the same place if I have been able to avoid it." Series such as “Barcelona d’esquena al mar”, “La Barcelona Viscuda” or “Cavernarios” have emerged from the city walks.

He has worked in the press since the beginning. His first published photographs were in La Vitrina de El Periódico (1979) when a giraffe that fell into a pit in the zoo and captured the entire event with his camera.

His activity as a photojournalist ended in 2008, when Pedro J. Ramírez acquired the Recoletos Group to which Telva magazine belonged, in which he had published his photos for the past 25 years. The new wording stopped requesting services from former employees.

For more than a decade he had collaborated in various publications such as Ajoblanco, Integral, Chimera, Special Rock, Readings, La Vanguardia or Europa Press for which he obtained with the journalist Jaume Morer de Llorens the exclusive of the first Spanish test tube baby: Victoria-Ana .

His works in the press used to be portraits of personalities revealing culture, art and politics such as Ana María Matute, Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, Silvia Munt, Vittorio Gassman, Jaume Plensa, Joan Brossa, Arata Isozaki, Adolfo Suárez or Pascual Maragall and also reports related to the world of music. He attended concerts photographing musicians such as Bob Dylan, Lou Reed, Police, Elvis Costello, Eric Burdon or David Bowie and the atmosphere of the entertainment venues in Barcelona: Metro, Nick Habana, KGB, Studio 54, Fantastic or Metropol.

In 1987 he was director of photography for Shows magazine, a publication specialized in music, leisure and entertainment. He has also worked for the P.D.I., Wilde Records and Gira labels, making LP covers and promotional photos.

It was a very important time for Barcelona, ​​the first steps in democracy were being made and the adjudication of the Olympic Games of 92 changed the physiognomy of the city forever. These circumstances make many of Sancho's photographs a sociological document of great interest, as shown in his recent exhibition "Urban Chronicles."

Advertising was another of its radios of action. I worked in studio and made reports in factories. He felt comfortable, since his previous occupations in the industry made it easier for him to understand industrial processes. "I took photographs for Esteve Química, I remembered when I was doing hundreds of laboratory tests in the manufacture of polyurethane foams." "In Uniland, the monumentality of the machinery and the activation of 5000 Kg. Of GM2 in a quarry made the activity of taking photographs very exciting." “Psion Teklogic gave me the opportunity to know and photograph the Haut Atlas of Morocco from Marrakech to the dunes of Erg Chebbi, it was zigzagging through mountains and indescribable deserts. On one occasion, the majesty of the landscape was so great that I didn't want to photograph it. ” "The advertising work was integrated as my own, acting freely:" nobody imposed on me as I should do the photographs. "

Regarding where he puts his work he says: “I think that in my photos there may be surrealist, symbolic, or narrative references but I have always adopted an attitude of freedom when it comes to photographing, I have never imposed restrictions”

Featured exhibitions:

Individuals:

  1. IMAGINANT LA SERRALADA LITORAL. CA L'ANTIGA. TEIÀ. BARCELONA.

  2. THE SEA THAT I LOOK. FORN D’TEATRE PA’TOTHOM -MIRADES ESPAI. BERCELONA.

  3. FROM THE INTERPRETATION OF THE MATTER TO THE INTERPRETED MATTER. JOINT EXHIBITION OF NÚRIA GUINOVART AND JOSÉ ANT. SANCHO. C.C. URGELL. BARCELONA.

  4. SCHOOLED WORKS I SOME SUGGERÈNCIES. IL MONDO PHOTO GALLERY. BARCELONA.

  5. URBAN CRÒNIQUES. CMC LA UNIÓ.TEIÀ.

  6. WHERE THE LIGHT HITS. GLAUC THE MASNOU

  7. BARCELONA VISCUDA. BARCELONA VISIONS. BARCELONA.

  8. CAVERNARIOS. CAN CANYADO TRADITIONAL CULTURE CENTER. BADALONA.

  9. D’SQUENA AL MAR. ALEX TELESE GALLERY. BARCELONA.

  10. CAVERNARIOS. ALEX TELESE GALLERY. BARCELONA.

  11. CAVERNARIES. ROOM D, EXHIBITIONS EL CASAL. TIANA, BARCELONA.

  12. BARCELONA CANALLA I SUBLIM 1979’99 ’. SETBA ZONE D`ART. BARCELONA.

  13. EROTIC. VINS I DIVINS. THE MASNOU BARCELONA.

  14. CAVERNARIES. THE ZERO ART. BARCELONA.

  15. MUSICS. MUNTANER 242. BARCELONA.

  16. FOREST AND STONE. VINS I DIVINS. THE MASNOU BARCELONA.

  17. PAISATGE SUBURBÁ. MUNTANER 242. BARCELONA.

  18. CAVERNARIES. VINS I DIVINS. BARCELONA.

  19. CAVERNARIES. MUNTANER 242. BARCELONA.

  20. CAVERNARIES. THE ELIZALDE HOUSE. BARCELONA.

  21. CAVERNARIOS. THESEO SALA D'ART. BARCELONA.

  22. BARCELONA ROCK AND ROLL. THE ARTS ROOM, MADRID.

  23. FOREST, STONE AND MIND. GRACE ROOM OF ART. BARCELONA.

  24. HAUT ATLAS FINS ERG CHEBI. REST. THESEO SALA D’ART. BARCELONA.

  25. MUSICIANS 1979 2003. DISCOTECA KARMA. BARCELONA.

  26. SOME CHARACTERS OF ROCK. BAR ROOM 242 BCN. BARCELONA.

  27. PHOTOGRAPHS. D’ART THESEO ROOM. BARCELONA.

  28. FINISHES TO THE SOSTRE. CIVIC BESOS CENTER, BARCELONA.

  29. BACK TO THE SOURCES. CIVIC KISS CENTER. BARCELONA.

  30. MY HUMAN ENVIRONMENT. GREEN LIBERARY ATENEO. BARCELONA.

  31. IN SEARCH OF SOURCES. CULTURAL CENTER, AGUAVIVA, TERUEL.

  32. PHOTOS 1979-1989. THE OTHER BAR. BARCELONA.

  33. THREE YEARS OF ROCK. THE STORE. IBIZA

  34. PHOTOGRAPHS. BOOK THE BLACK, BARCELONA.

Collectives:

  1. O.F.N.I. 2017. VALID PHOTO. BARCELONA.

  2. TERRA. THE CASINET. THE MASNOU

  3. ERÒTICA 3. CHEZ XEFO ART GALLERY. BARCELONA.

  4. ART ERÓTIC A BANYS VELLS. BARCELONA VISIONS-OLIVART ART GALLERY-AFRICA NEGRA. BARCELONA.

  5. GLAMOUROSOS CULS. OLIVART ART GALLERY. BARCELONA.

  6. BARCELONETA VISIONS. DC BARCELONETA BARCELONA.

  7. ALTERNATIVE. LIMITED

  8. FROM THE VANGUARD TO SIDECAR. FUNDACIÓ SETBA. BARCELONA.

  9. THE NIT OF LES ANIMES. OLIVART ART GALLERY. BARCELONA.

  10. EX LIBRIS. TRIBUTE TO WALTER BENJAMIN. REUS MUSEUM. REUS.TARRAGONA.

  11. INAUGURACIÒ NOU ESPAI MIRO. SETBA FOUNDATION. BARCELONA.

  12. JÄÄL PHOTO. HOTEL CHIC & BASIC MAYERLING. MADRID.

  13. CONNEXIONS. THE CASINET. THE MASNOU

  14. SELF PORTRAITS. DC BARCELONETA BARCELONA.

  15. MEDITERRANEO MYTH AND REALITY. DC BARCELONETA BARCELONA.

  16. AUTHOR PHOTOGRAPH. NADAL 2013. BARCELONA VISIONS. BARCELONA.

  17. O.F.N.I. . VALID PHOTO. BARCELONA.

  18. THE MEMORY OF THE PLAZA. SETBA ZONE D’ART. BARCELONA.

  19. 20POINT. THE ELIZALDE HOUSE. BARCELONA.

  20. ARQUI-TEXTURES. SPANISH CULTURAL SPANISH. BARCELONA.

  21. SATRC 2008. ATENEU IGUALADÍ. EQUALIZER. BARCELONA.

  22. SET OF SET. SETBA ZONE D’ART. BARCELONA.

  23. CONTRAPOSATS. C.C. BARCELONETA. BARCELONA.

  24. FAC07. SPIDER POLIDOR. SANT ADRIÀ DEL KESOS. BARCELONA.

  25. LANDS OF ALA. DIDCAV, THE HOUSE OF THE DOME. PEOPLE. MEXICO.

  26. ENDERREROCK. CIVIC KISS CENTER. BARCELONA.

  27. THE MULTIPLE LOOK. MAS MARTI "CAN CORDER". VILADEMULS. GERONA

  28. COLLECTIVE. GREEN LIBERARY ATENEO. BARCELONA.

  29. COLLECTIVE. GREEN LIBERARY ATENEO. BARCELONA.

  30. COLLECTIVE. GREEN LIBERARY ATENEO. BARCELONA.

  31. COLLECTIVE. GREEN LIBERARY ATENEO. BARCELONA.

  32. A TOMB PEL BARRI. INAUGURACIÓ CENTER CIVIC BESOS. BARCELONA.

  33. PRESS PHOTO. FUNDACIÓ CAIXA DE PENSIONES. BARCELONA.

Collaborations and publications:

De autor:

  1. Obres Escogides i Algunes Suggerències. Il-Mondo / J.A.Sancho.

  2. Barcelona Canalla i Sublim 1979’99. Setba Zona d’Art.

Otros libros:

  1. Kevin Ayers por Alberto Manzano.

  2. Carteles de Cine - 100 Diseñadores españoles. (Edit. Ignacio Michelena Usatorre).

  3. África, Música y Arte. (Fundación La Fontana).

  4. Objetes amb ànima, Art Africa. (Obra social Caixa Terrassa).

2006. MACCARTEL, Macario Gómez. (Edit. Papel Gallery).

2003. La Barcelona Rebelde. (Edit. Octaedro S.l. Autores: 69).

2001. Soligó (Más allá del technicolor) (Edit. Paco Baena, Prólogo Terenci Moix).

1994. Bob Dylan se busca. (Edit. Celeste, Autor: John Bauldie).

1984. El Pop Español (Edit. Teorema, S.A. Autor: Diego Silva).

1979. Lou Reed Canciones (Edit. Picado, Autor: Alberto Manzano).

Magazines and newspapers:

1984-2008 Telva (Madrid) / 1989 Actualidad Económica (Madrid) / 1989 Practice (Barcelona) / 1984-1985-1988 Europa Press (BCN and Madrid) / 1987-1988 Dominical ABC (Madrid) / 1987 Chimera (Barcelona) / 1987 Already Dominical (Madrid) / 1987 Ajoblanco (Barcelona) / 1986-1987 Shows (Barcelona) / 1986-1987 Show Press (Barcelona) / 1986 Professional Sound (Barcelona) / 1985 Best (Paris) / 1984-1985 Lib (Barcelona) / 1984-1985 Rock In (Barcelona) / 1984 Rambla Rock (Barcelona) / 1984 El Correo (Barcelona) / 1984 Readings (Barcelona) / 1984 Ségre Newspaper (Lérida) / 1984 Punt Diari (Girona) / 1983 Special Rock (Barcelona) / 1983 Spanish Journal (Tarragona) / 1983-1984 Mundo Cristiano (Madrid) / 1983 Dominical Weekly Image. Nacional / 1983 La Vanguardia Dominical (Barcelona) / 1982-1983 Chronic Magazine (Barcelona) / 1979 El Periódico (Barcelona)