Society
Environment
Politics
Economy
Culture
Basque language
Feminism
Education
International
Opinion
thursday 06 february 2025
Automatically translated from Basque, translation may contain errors. More information here. 
Eulalia Abaitua, photographer who looked at women
- Eulalia Abaitua Allende was a woman who pioneered photography in the Basque Country (Bilbao, 1853 – Bilbao, 1943). Her photographs show the Basque society of the 20th century: she collected the daily activities, the professions, the parties... The view of a woman centered on women. Thus, he portrayed a large number of rural and urban women, with special prominence in them.
He photographed women of different generations.
The first studies were carried out in Barcelona and in 1873 they moved to Liverpool fleeing the Second Carlist War, marrying a year earlier with the sailor Juan Narciso Olano Pikabea Lesakoa. His first contact with the photograph took place in England and upon returning to Bilbao, he installed his photographic laboratory in the basement of the house located next to the Basilica of Begoña.
It reflected women in their daily work. Urban, rural and coastal women working.
Almost all the work is done with 44x107 steroscopic plates mm.dun in black and white. Currently, more than 1000 photographs by himself are preserved. He didn't make them public and stayed in the basement of his house. The family then handed over to the Bilbao Basque Museum. Now, Euskariana has made available several photographs of this beautiful collection. These include the main photographs that helped transform the baserritarra suit.
Photographs also reflect leisure times. Women were also present at dance, party and party.
- More photos: Eulalia Abaitua
- Source: Photos of Eulaia Abaitua (Euskariana)
On the other hand, the exhibition From the camera to the needle, produced by the Basque Museum of Bilbao and part of the photographs of Eulalia Abaitua, can be visited at the La Encartada Museum Factory in Balmaseda until July. Exhibition of women dressed in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Most read
Using Matomo
#1
#2
#3
#4
Mikel Garcia Idiakez
#5
Tere Maldonado
You are interested in the channel: Argazkilaritza
The Best Pictures of Wikipedia in 2023: Spectacular Images of Nature
Wikimedia Commons collects the free license files used in Wikipedia: images, photos, audios, videos… Right now they form a gigantic collection of 110 million files. In 2006, they started to pick the best pictures of the year. Those of 2023 have been elected by popular vote.
2024-08-14
Gorka Peñagarikano Goikoetxea
Artist Juan Luis Goenaga dies at the age of 74
Born in San Sebastian, he lived for several years in Alkiza, a farmhouse. The nature around him fascinated him. He's mainly known as a painter.
Winners of the Wiki Loves Monuments 2023 contest "A place where time is standing"
They announce the 15 winners of the 2023 Wiki Loves Monuments photo contest. Organized annually by the Wikimedia Foundation, behind Wikipedia, is the largest photo contest in the world. Last year, 4,700 photographers from 46 countries participated with 200,000 photographs... [+]
2024-01-28
Jone Alaitz Uriarte
Work by Isabel Azkarate, Tabakle
Photographer from a single cliska
On the stairs of access to the Hotel Maria Cristina in San Sebastian, dozens of photographers are beaten loaded with covers with photo and video cameras, lenses and lenses. Only one woman appears at the centre of the group. She carries her hair loose and is the only one without... [+]
2023-10-11
Ruben Sánchez Bakaikoa
Cristina Chiquín Rodríguez, Guatemalan photographer and journalist
“Violence against women is the only weapon not left”
Cristina Chiquín Rodríguez communicates through the photographs: What is being a Guatemalan woman? In his search is the exhibition that he has presented in Bilboko Bira kulturgunea, The Search, a sample of the book of the same name. For the second time he has come to Euskal... [+]
2023-08-29
Gabrielle Duplantier (photographer):
"With the photos I'm not in a quest to catch reality"
We met with photographer Gabrielle Duplantier in Baiona, on a terrace on the banks of the Adour. Without exhibitions or new books, ask the journalist about what the interview is going to be, specifying that it is also in a vital phase in which a small photograph is taken. We... [+]
2023-08-01
Alfons Rodríguez
Global climate emergency in images
Melting age
Alfons Rodríguez has been photographing the consequences of the climate emergency around the world for twenty years within the Melting Age project. With these black and white images, the photographer tries to draw attention to the need to do something.
2023-06-01
ARGIA
Want to be part of the network of ARGIA collaborating photographers?
The collaboration of photographers has always been very important in journalism, and ARGIA aims to create a strong network throughout the Basque Country for the interviews and reports we hold here and there. We're looking for more collaborating photographers.
2022-09-13
Jone Alaitz Uriarte
Pictures of film fragments
Art and artistic manifestations have always been a step beyond society. That’s why some say that to legitimize and assimilate the work of a photographer one must spend a hundred years, because that’s the time that history – the patriarchal system – needs to properly read... [+]
2022-06-16
Itsaso Zubiria Etxeberria
forty-three years after the death of ‘Francis’
Although you read it a little later, reader, I am writing these lines on June 10. Just forty-three years after homosexual transvestite Francis was shot to death by police Antonio Caba. On May 17, day against LGBTBIphobia, the first Francisaldia cycle to add Francisco’s memory... [+]
2022-06-14
Jon Torner Zabala
Iñaki Azanza, cycling in photos
"Cycling lets you tell the story of a village"
Ordiziarra Iñaki Azanza first visited the Tour de France in 1978. How many thousands of photos you have taken since then! Live cycling with passion. Maybe that's why it hurts here the fate of racing around. “Home racing needs to be taken care of,” he says, coinciding with... [+]
2022-06-10
Sustatu
Napalma burned the girl: Photography is 50 years old
The photograph illustrating this article was made 50 years ago. On June 8, 1972, the United States Armed Undes bombed the village of Trang Bang with napalm bombs. Among the victims of this peasant village, a group of children fled and photographer Nick Ut, who was with the... [+]
Eguneraketa berriak daude