BRINGING HERITAGE CLOSER. PHOTOGRAPHY IN NAVARRA. FUNDS AND COLLECTIONS

30 August 2012

The photographic collections at fileMunicipal de Pamplona
Ms. Ana D. Hueso Pérez. fileMunicipal Council of Pamplona

The fileFotográfico de la Ciudad or Fototeca is the section of the fileMunicipal de Pamplona dedicated to the collection, installation, organisation, description, assessmentand selection, access and dissemination of the photographic collection produced by Pamplona City Council as a result of its activity management assistantduring the exercise of its functions and within its sphere of competence, on the one hand, as well as other non-municipal photographic collections and holdings, which have been brought into the municipal institution in various ways -purchase, bequest, transfer or deposit- as they are considered to be of interest for the contemporary history of Pamplona, as a result of a policy of recovering Pamplona's documentary heritage and for the history of photographic technique and its authors, in an attempt to place local photographic production in its rightful place within the universal history of photography.

Stereoscopic view of the Caparroso Mill. Ca. 1870
Wet collodion negative on glass plate.
filePamplona Municipal Archives (AMP): Municipal Fund: City Hall Sub-Fund

The documents that comprise it are characterised by containing still images captured directly from reality through a camera obscura and by having been obtained through photographic, photomechanical or digital procedures, in a chronological period from ca.1850 to the present day, and are therefore considered Documentary Heritage of the City.

Delivery of milk in the Calle Mayor on a snowy day. Jesús martínez Gorráiz. Ca1945
Copy on paper . Chemically developed gelatine
filePamplona Municipal Archives (AMP) Municipal Fund: City Hall Sub-Fund

Male portrait. Ferrotype. ca 1855
fileMunicipal de Pamplona (AMP). Ascunce Collection
 

Having determined the characteristics of the images that make up the photographic file, the methodological study of the documentary groups of which they form part -funds or collections-, applying the basic archival principle of respect for the origin according to their producer, a theoretical foundation that governs the organisation of any documentary fund or collection, has led to resultthe correct identification and delimitation of the following:
- MUNICIPAL COLLECTION:
Pamplona City Council sub-fonds

- PRIVATE FUNDS AND COLLECTIONS:
-PERSONAL
Pablo Sarasate Collection
Collection of the amateur photographer Aquilino García Deán
Ángel Ascunce Collection
Collection of José Joaquín Arazuri
Martín Sarobe Collection
Collection of postcards of Pamplona by Javier Soria
Collection of works by Pamplona photographers by Javier Soria

- COMPANIES
Collection of the illustrated magazine "La Avalancha".
Collection of the professional photographer F. Galle
Collection of the professional photographers Zubieta and Retegui

- FAMILIARS
Collection of postcards of the running of the bulls in Pamplona from the Rdgz. family. Juguera
Bengoa Ochoa Family Collection
Veramendi - Rípodas Family Collection
Collection of the Martínez Ponce Family

- FACTITIOUS COLLECTIONS
Collection of negatives on glass plate
Collection of stereoscopic views on glass plate
Collection of positives on paper
Collection of postcards
Slide Collection
Collection of Albums

Portrait of Pablo Sarasate. Ambrotype. Ca1865
fileMunicipal de Pamplona (AMP).Pablo Sarasate Collection