Joana Biarnés

Joana Biarnés (Florensa, 1935–2018) is considered the first female photojournalist in Spain. Her images capture a key period in the 20th century: the years of Franco's regime, with a sad and impoverished Spain, and the beginnings of democracy, its aspirations for freedom and how hope was recovered. Joana Biarnés's gaze captured a changing society, also leaving testimony to catastrophes, sporting events, and social events. Key figures in Spanish art such as Dalí, Buñuel, Lola Flores, Rocío Durcal, Rocío Jurado, Marisol, Massiel, Joan Manuel Serrato, and Raphael appeared before her camera, portrayed in a close and natural manner. And international artists such as Orson Welles, Jack Lemmon, Yul Brinner, Roman Polanski, Clint Eastwood, and the Beatles themselves also surrendered to her charisma, being the only one who managed to photograph the band in the privacy of their hotel room, during their Spanish tour.